The Ancient Horsemen Who Created the Modern World
The peoples of Europe and West Asia, as well as everyone descended from their migrations across the globe—some four billion ...
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The first Europeans weren’t who you might think
Yamnaya artifacts from their homeland in Russia ... About 45,000 years ago, those first modern humans ventured into Europe, having made their way up through the Middle East. Their own DNA suggests ...
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Yamnaya Bronze (IMAGE)
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 ...
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A Yamnaya Skull (IMAGE)
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 ...
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The Yamnaya Impact on Prehistoric Europe
The Yamnaya Impact on Prehistoric Europe (YMPACT) is an international and interdisciplinary research project based at the University of Helsinki Department of Cultures and funded by the European ...
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The Ancient Horsemen Who Created the Modern World
For about half the people alive today, the story of where they came from just became clearer. For centuries, historians and linguists have been searching for the cradle of the Indo-Europeans, an ...
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The ancient horsemen who created the modern world
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 ...