Over the last 20 years, genetic research has changed dramatically. An explosion of genomic data has reshaped how we understand our past. Scientists have collected genetic material from hundreds of ...

The world’s most popular family of languages has its roots in a small corner of Europe. Its evolution – a story of migration, conquest, intermarriage and human progress – has lessons for how ...

Skin color of Ancient Indians from Swat and of Indo-European Steppe pastoralists (Yamnaya, Afanasievo, Poltavka, Corded Ware). Most common skin-tones in all the populations are dark skinned or ...

The Dzungarians, in contrast, mixed with pastoralist herders from southern Siberia known as the Afanasievo, who were genetically linked to the Indo-European Yamnaya people of southern Russia.

Zeus and other ancient gods from various mythologies may be rooted in earlier Proto-Indo-European beliefs in a “sky father” deity. Credit: Nancy Anburaj / CC BY-SA 4.0 / Michel Corneille the Younger / ...

Aryans: The Search for a People, a Place and a Myth is the last book that Charles Allen, who passed away in 2020 at the age of 80, wrote. This was his 27th book, and he died without completing it. In ...

Villages are structured and fortified. Soltnitsana (Bulgaria) is Europe’s first known city. The Afanasevo culture, also known as Afanasievo, originated in southern Siberia between 3300 and 2400 BCE.

The researchers having used ancIBD found that Yamnaya culture individuals shared genetic descent with individuals of the Afanasievo culture thousands of kilometres to the east near the Central ...

They believe that migrating Afanasievo herders who may have been following their herds had migrated and mixed with local hunter-gatherers in Dzungaria. Meanwhile the “Tarim people retained their ...