and Nikitin et al. present genomic data for 367 individuals from the Pontic–Caspian steppe and surrounding areas, doubling the number of available genomes from the Eneolithic period and almost ...

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

For decades, scholars debated between the Steppe Theory, which posits that the Indo-European languages originated with the Yamnaya culture in the Pontic-Caspian steppe, and the Anatolian ...

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 ...

Ancient DNA locates the geographic origin of Proto-Indo-Europeans and Proto-Anatolians and describes their early migrations out of the Caucasus Lower Volga and North Pontic regions of ... lived on the ...

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But what exactly is that? Steppe ancestry refers to the Pontic-Caspian steppes located north of the Black and Caspian Seas. Thanks to genetics and ancient DNA, we already know that the population who ...