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 ...

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 ...

Three waves of immigrants settled prehistoric Europe. The last, some 5,000 years ago, were the Yamnaya, horse-riding cattle herders from Russia who built imposing grave mounds like this one near ...

The Yamnaya, researchers believe ... “I don’t think we can even imagine what it was like for other people to see a wagon coming,” said Anthony. “It was moving across the landscape ...

The research was published in two papers in the scientific journal Nature last month. The name Yamnaya comes from the pits ...