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 ...

The Ukok Plateau is about 2000 kilometers from the Ural-Volga regions from which the Afanasievo likel originated. It seems that around 3500 BCE they "leap-frogged" across what would become the ...

Dr. Taylor Hermes of the Department of Archaeogenetics at the Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History has received grants from the National Geographic Society and the Wenner-Gren ...