Ancient-DNA analyses identify a Caucasus Lower Volga people as the ancient originators of Proto-Indo-European, the precursor ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

These linguistic pioneers were spread from the steppe grasslands along the lower ... The second paper, "A genomic history of the North Pontic Region from the Neolithic to the Bronze Age," authored ...

The North Pontic region, which encompasses present-day Ukraine, was for centuries a crossroads of migration from multiple directions, connecting the vast Eurasian Steppe with Central Europe. In a ...

Council leaders have welcomed a 10-year plan to boost the Greater Manchester economy and create tens of thousands of new homes and jobs. The plans focus on developing six "growth locations" across ...