Based on both lexical and, especially, archaeological evidence, the standard view among scholars has for some time been that the Proto-Indo-European homeland was on the Pontic-Caspian steppe ...

PIE may have first spread thanks to its association with these valuable luxuries.By 3500 B.C., however, cooler temperatures, long periods of drought and endemic warfare in southeastern Europe led to a ...

An extinct set of Indo-European languages was spoken there during ... of the fighting is happening right now—that's the Yamnaya homeland," Anthony said. What is now clear is that a population ...

This “homeland” of Indo-Europeans was “one of the most genetically and culturally complex places in Eurasia; it had many more genetic strains coming in and mixing than you would see in the ...

The authors of the study therefore proposed a new hybrid hypothesis for the origin of the Indo-European languages, with an ultimate homeland south of the Caucasus and a subsequent branch northwards ...

The authors of the study therefore proposed a new hybrid hypothesis for the origin of the Indo-European languages, with an ultimate homeland south of the Caucasus and a subsequent branch northwards ...

Indo-European languages—including English ... “Where the worst of the fighting is happening right now—that’s the Yamnaya homeland,” archaeologist and study co-author David Anthony ...

For instance, the Indo-European word for “two” was ... the steppes as playing an important role as a secondary homeland for most European languages: After one branch traveled northward ...

The language family began to diverge from around 8100 years ago, out of a homeland immediately south of the Caucasus (P. Heggarty et al., Science) The research suggests the Indo-European language ...

evolved from a common tongue called the Proto-Indo-European, whose origin has been a mystery. In the new study, researchers at Vienna University analysed DNA samples of 435 people from ...