Ancient 6,500-Year-Old DNA Reveals the Origin of Indo-European Languages Spoken by Half the World. Story by Tibi Puiu • 2mo. T housands of years ago, ...

They traced the origins of Indo-European languages to 7,800–9,800 years ago, supporting the Anatolian hypothesis. Critics were skeptical. Gray and Atkinson had determined when the languages ...

Indo-European languages spoken by nearly half of the world today originated from an ancient population that lived in the North Caucasus mountains and the Lower Volga, according to a new DNA study ...

Where did Europe's distinct Uralic family of languages—which includes Hungarian, Finnish, and Estonian—come from? New ...

But even though they clearly speak a form of Proto-Indo-European, science has never been able to explain where they got it. But Pinhasi and his team, via their analysis of ancient DNA from over 435 ...

For centuries, historians and linguists have been searching for the cradle of the Indo-Europeans, an ancient people who shaped history and created the world’s largest language family, now spoken ...

The origin of Indo-European languages has long been a topic of debate among scholars and scientists. In 2012, a team of evolutionary biologists at the University of Auckland led by Dr. Quentin ...

DNA sampling on ancient skeletons and new linguistic analysis of root words in steppe and European languages have shifted the debate from where to […] WORLD TECH & SCIENCE ...

Genetic ties. An ancient DNA analysis unexpectedly found signs of mating more than 5,000 years ago between western Asian Yamnaya herders and European farmers, possibly from the Globular Amphora ...

For centuries, historians and linguists have been searching for the cradle of the Indo-Europeans, an ancient people who shaped history and created the world’s largest language family, now spoken ...