However, one group of Indo-European languages – the Anatolian – does not exhibit any steppe ancestry. Anatolian languages, ...

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 ...

For decades, scholars debated between the Steppe Theory, which posits that the Indo-European languages originated with the ...

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 ...

Or — the latest linguistic hypothesis — were these Anatolian and steppe languages both offspring of an even older ancestor spoken in the northern Caucasus (now southern Russia) some 6,000 ...