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.

The storied Yamnaya people emerged as the leading contenders for the language family's originators. The influential 2007 book "The Horse, the Wheel, and Language: How Bronze-Age Riders from the ...

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 ...