Harvard researchers traced the origins of the vast Indo-European language family to the Caucasus-Lower Volga region, ...

DNA Evidence of Ancient Population Hints at Common Ancestry of Indo-European Languages New insights regarding the origin of ...

This is a reconstruction of the Yamnaya skull. A typical Yamnaya individual from the Caspian steppe in Russia ca. 5,000-4,800 BP. Yamnaya people were tall and were buried in deep pits covered by a ...

Yamnaya artifacts from their homeland in Russia ... Nazi propagandists later used that as an intellectual justification for the modern Aryan “master race” to invade eastern Europe.

“This really solves two big unresolved questions.” The first is the origin of the Yamnaya. The second was posed in the eighteenth century, when scholars noticed similarities between classical ...

Some of the key archaeological sites linked to the Yamnaya people are in areas currently ... Indo-European speakers belonged to a pure “Aryan” race, per Science. The Nazis co-opted these ...

The Yamnaya Impact on Prehistoric Europe (YMPACT) is an international and interdisciplinary research project based at the University of Helsinki Department of Cultures and funded by the European ...