The peoples of Europe and West Asia, as well as everyone descended from their migrations across the globe—some four billion human beings alive today—can trace their ancestry to the Yamnaya, a ...

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5,000-year-old Yamnaya skeletons show physical signs of horseback riding, hinting that they may be the earliest known humans to do so. Skip to content. Subscribe or renew today ...

Together, the data pointed strongly to the idea of horse domestication in northern Kazakhstan around 3500 B.C. — not quite the Yamnaya homeland, but close enough geographically to keep the basic ...

Archaeologists excavated a dirt mound and found an ancient Yamnaya culture grave, a first-of-its-kind find for Slovakia, photos show. Photo from the Slovak Academy of Sciences Inside a relatively ...

To further confirm whether the Yamnaya rode horses, the authors examined every bone from this group that they could get their hands on, dug up from sites across Bulgaria, Czechia, Hungary, and ...

The Yamnaya, who lived 5,000 years ago, ... This model fits much better with what archaeologists find in Yamnaya graves: very few weapons, and a low incidence of traumatic injury.

Archaeologists excavated dirt mound in Hatalov and unearthed ancient Yamnaya culture grave, first-of-its-kind find for country, photos show. World 4,600-year-old teen’s burial found inside ...

Yamnaya graves found during an excavation in Bulgaria. Photo: Bianca Preda-Balancia, Helsinki For about half the people alive today, the story of where they came from just became clearer.

New DNA research shows that half the human beings alive today are descended from the Yamnaya, who lived in Ukraine 5,000 years ago.