Half of humanity shares an ancestral link to an ancient group of people from Ukraine, reshaping our understanding of human ...

Half of the human beings alive today are descended from the Yamnaya, a group that lived in what is now Ukraine 5,000 years ...

New DNA research shows that half the human beings alive today are descended from the Yamnaya, who lived in Ukraine 5,000 years ago. For about half the people alive today, the story of where they ...

Yamnaya people moved into Central Asia from the region around present day Caucasus in early Bronze Age (c. 5000 years ago) and developed the Afanasievo culture. The Afanasievo are one of the ...

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 small barrow. Ten thousands were built during ...

“There are no indigenous people—anyone who hearkens back to racial purity is confronted with the meaninglessness of the concept.” Yamnaya artifacts from their homeland in Russia and Ukraine ...

The Yamnaya people, originating around 5500 years ago in present-day Ukraine, were highly mobile herders who expanded rapidly across a vast area from Central Europe to the edges of China around ...

According to the results of DNA research, almost half of the world's population may originate from the yamnaya culture that ...

Yamnaya people migrating to Europe in the Bronze Age carried gene variants increasing multiple sclerosis risk, possibly spreading them due to protective effects against infections from their ...

The Yamnaya Impact on Prehistoric Europe (YMPACT) is an international and interdisciplinary research project based at the University of Helsinki Department of Cultures and funded by the European ...