and Nikitin et al. present genomic data for 367 individuals from the Pontic–Caspian steppe and surrounding areas, doubling the number of available genomes from the Eneolithic period and almost ...

For over two hundred years, the origin of the Indo-European languages has been disputed. Two main theories have recently dominated this debate: the ‘Steppe’ hypothesis, which proposes an origin in the ...

However, modern scholars differentiate between the “Scythians proper” of the Pontic-Caspian steppe and related but distinct peoples such as the Saka (to the east), the Massagetae, and the ...

Two main theories have recently dominated this debate: the "Steppe" hypothesis, which proposes an origin in the Pontic-Caspian Steppe around 6,000 years ago, and the "Anatolian" or "farming ...

The Pontic-Caspian steppe covers a massive swath of land ranging from Romania in the west to the Caspian Sea in the south and northwestern Kazakhstan in the east. The Pontic–Caspian Steppe ...

That’s when a specific lineage that first arose in what’s known as the Pontic-Caspian Steppe, a plains region that stretches from what is now northeastern Bulgaria across Ukraine and through ...

Most of the skeletons belonged to a group of people known as the Yamnaya, cattle and sheep herders who originated on the Pontic-Caspian steppe that stretches from southeastern Europe into ...

The DNA analysis revealed significant inbreeding 4200 years ago in the Pontic-Caspian steppe horses, probably because people aimed to develop specific traits that make high-quality riding and ...

But all domestic horses come from the Pontic-Caspian Steppe of Bulgaria, Ukraine, and Russia in the third millennium. Now researchers have pinpointed exactly when this horse took over and the Age ...

The Kurgan from the movie Highlander wasn't based on a specific person but on a real-life people: the Kurgans, an ancient nomadic people from the Pontic-Caspian steppe (parts of modern Ukraine ...