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 ...

Yamnaya artifacts from their homeland in Russia ... “For the most part, they stayed separate.” A woman harvests wheat by hand near Konya, Turkey. Farmers from Anatolia brought agriculture ...