“Chances are, we wouldn’t even know about this crucial culture in human history.” As the debate over the origins of Indo-European languages continues, one thing is clear: The story is far ...

In the case of Proto-Indo-European, lively debate over the date ... and that the dispersal of members of the Yamnaya culture, whose most striking cultural practice still visible today was the ...

Chances are, we wouldn't even know about this crucial culture in human history." More information: Iosif Lazaridis et al, The genetic origin of the Indo-Europeans, Nature (2025). DOI: 10.1038 ...

Ancient-genomics researchers have pinpointed the homelands of a nomadic tribe that transformed the culture and genetics of Europe and Asia, revealing a potential source for the Indo-European ...

The oldest Indo-European writing, dating back 3,700 years ... people — perhaps just a few hundred — formed a distinctive culture and became the first Yamnaya. Another wave of CLV people ...

These people, known as the Caucasus-Lower Volga (CLV) group, later gave rise to the Yamnaya, a nomadic herding culture that spread Indo-European languages across Eurasia. “It’s the first time ...

Proto: How One Ancient Language Went Global. By Laura Spinney. Bloomsbury; 352 pages; $29.99. William Collins; £22 Dante did like a category. Famously, he split sinners into different circles in ...

This proposal challenges the traditional view that considers the Astures as a Celtic or at least Indo-European people. Ballester based his argument on a convergence of linguistic, cultural, and ...

They retain the hairstyles, clothing, and accoutrements of a long-past culture—one that once seemed to suggest they were migrant Indo-Europeans who settled in the region thousands of years ago.

the standard view among scholars has for some time been that the Proto-Indo-European homeland was on the Pontic-Caspian steppe, between and north of the Black and Caspian Seas, and that the dispersal ...