The last, some 5,000 years ago, were the Yamnaya, horse-riding cattle herders ... Everything from hair and eye color to the inability to digest milk can be determined from a thousandth of an ...

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 research was published in two papers in the scientific journal Nature last month. The name Yamnaya comes from the pits (yama in Ukrainian and Russian) in which they buried their dead beneath ...