The explosion of Proto-Indo-European from its origins in Eastern Ukraine—the subject of science journalist Laura Spinney’s ...

The presiding theory now is that Anatolian isn’t the daughter of Proto-Indo-European, but its sister, with both being the products of a much more ancient language which provided the bases for the ...

However, one group of Indo-European languages – the Anatolian – does not exhibit any steppe ancestry. Anatolian languages, including Hittite, are the oldest branch of the Indo-European tongues ...

Previous studies had not found steppe ancestry among the Hittites because, the new paper argues, the Anatolian languages were descended from a language spoken by a group that had not been ...

exported languages in the family as the agricultural revolution spread starting around 9,000 years ago. The ‘Anatolian hypothesis’ took a blow in 2015, when two blockbuster ancient-genomics ...

For example, Anatolian, a now-extinct group of languages, was once thought to be the earliest offshoot of PIE, the first instance in which a new language split off from the mother tongue.