Earlier genetic studies had shown that the Yamnaya carried steppe ancestry into Europe and Asia, but the origins of their language remained unclear. The new research reveals that the CLV people not ...

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

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

A pair of landmark studies, published Wednesday in the journal Nature, has finally identified the originators of the ...

Yamnaya artifacts from their homeland in Russia ... this early variant had to be passed from person to person. The steppe nomads apparently had lived with the disease for centuries, perhaps ...

Ancient DNA analysis provides new insights into our linguistic roots. Where did the Indo-European language family originate?

The movement of the Yamnaya people in this direction is widely ... European languages – the Anatolian – does not exhibit any steppe ancestry. Anatolian languages, including Hittite, are ...

Lower Volga group therefore can be connected to all Indo-European-speaking populations and is the best candidate for the population that spoke Indo-Anatolian, the ancestor of both Hittite and all ...

For Indians, these findings offer a new perspective on our linguistic and cultural connections to the wider world.

Previous studies had not found steppe ancestry among the Hittites because ... The new study shows the Yamnaya population to have derived about 80% of its ancestry from the CLV group, which ...

Ancient-genomics researchers have pinpointed the homelands of a nomadic tribe that transformed the culture and genetics of Europe and Asia, revealing a potential source for the Indo–European ...