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

DNA Evidence of Ancient Population Hints at Common Ancestry of Indo-European Languages New insights regarding the origin of ...

Learn more about groundbreaking genetic research that reveals a long-lost population and solves a centuries-old linguistic ...

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

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

Harvard researchers traced the origins of the vast Indo-European language family to the Caucasus-Lower Volga region, identifying the ancestral population that gave rise to more than 400 languages, in ...

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

This is a reconstruction of the Yamnaya skull. A typical Yamnaya individual from the Caspian steppe in Russia ca. 5,000-4,800 BP. Yamnaya people were tall and were buried in deep pits covered by a ...

The last, some 5,000 years ago, were the Yamnaya ... favored theory among linguists: that proto-Indo-Europeans migrated into Europe from the Russian steppe, not the other way around.

A new study reveals fresh clues about Indo-European language origins, tracing an ancestral group's key role in their spread.