A pair of landmark studies, published Wednesday in the journal Nature, has finally identified the originators of the ...
Around 3100 BCE, the Yamnaya people expanded into Europe and Central Asia, introducing "steppe ancestry" into human populations across Eurasia. Researchers in Ukraine examined the DNA of 81 ancient ...
Earlier genetic studies had shown that the Yamnaya culture (3.300-2.600 BCE) of the Pontic-Caspian steppes north of the Black and Caspian Seas expanded into both Europe and Central Asia beginning ...