Thousands of years ago, a group of hunter-gatherers roamed the steppes of southern Russia, fishing in its rivers and hunting ...

Where lies the origin of the Indo-European language family? Ron Pinhasi and his team in the Department of Evolutionary ...

He added: “The archaeology allowed us to bring together written sources and material remains thousands of kilometres across the Eurasian steppes.” “People created a tableau [of] dead humans ...

The rise of pastoralist peoples in the Eurasian steppes and their westward spread some 5,000 years ago may have been fueled by sheep herding and people exploiting their milk. As early as 8,000 years ...

A pair of landmark studies has genetically identified the originators of the massive Indo-European family of 400-plus ...

Lots of people go travelling hoping for a life-changing experience. Nick Laing may be one of the few to have actually had one. In 1975, the then Scots Guardsman went on a seven-month tour of south ...