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 ...

Yamnaya people were tall and were buried in deep pits covered by a small barrow. Ten thousands were built during this period in the Pontic-Caspian steppe, but also in temperate Europe thousands ...

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 DNA study was split into two papers since Russian and Ukrainian researchers couldn't co-author, Nature reported.

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.

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 ...