Scientists Just Discovered Where One of Europe’s Oldest Ancestors Came From
Over 5,300 years ago, ancient herders known as the Yamna people emerged from the steppes of what is now Ukraine, going on to ...
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Ancient 6,500-Year-Old DNA Reveals the Origin of Indo-European Languages Spoken by Half the World
Thousands of years ago, a group of hunter-gatherers roamed the steppes of southern Russia, fishing in its rivers and hunting ...
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The first Europeans weren’t who you might think
A clue comes from the teeth of 101 people living on the steppes and farther west in Europe around the time that the Yamnaya’s westward migration began. In seven of the samples, alongside the ...
Landmark studies track source of Indo-European languages spoken by 40% of world
A pair of landmark studies, published Wednesday in the journal Nature, has finally identified the originators of the ...
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The massive country is one of the world's most isolated with as many horses as people
The landscape is dominated by vast steppes, deserts, and rugged mountains. With a population of 3.2 million people and an equal ... also home to one of the world's last remaining nomadic cultures.
Ancient DNA analyses bring to life the 11,000-year intertwined genomic history of sheep and humans
Sheep have been intertwined with human livelihoods for over 11,000 years. As well as meat, their domestication led to humans ...