Half of humanity shares an ancestral link to an ancient group of people from Ukraine, reshaping our understanding of human history and migration.

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 ...

as well as everyone descended from their migrations across the globe—some four billion human beings alive today—can trace ...

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 ...

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 ...

New DNA research shows that half the human beings alive today are descended from the Yamnaya, who lived in Ukraine ... a small community of cattle-herders who lived 5,000 years ago in what is ...