Ever wondered about the meaning of traditional Slavic names like Czesław, Stanisław or Bożena? Here they are at last, properly explained, annotated, and... pronounced. As many of these ancient names ...

Others pointed to the Yamnaya, a nomadic herding culture that roamed the steppes of Russia and Ukraine around 5,000 years ago, as the likely pioneers of the root language.

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 ...

This includes the Romance, Germanic, Slavic, Baltic, Celtic ... and Greek populations acquired steppe ancestry directly from Yamnaya groups of Eastern Europe,” the study authors write.

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 ...

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 ...