Reich's lab has been pursuing proto-Indo-European speakers for more than 15 years. In 2014, they shared key insights in a Nature article on what Reich called "the profound mixing event" that ...

In “Proto,” Laura Spinney details the centurieslong effort to reconstruct Proto-Indo-European (PIE), what linguists believe to be the mother tongue of a diverse constellation of languages from ...

The Proto-Indo-European language emerged 6,000 years ago around the Black Sea when the Yamnaya, a group of nomadic herders, shifted into mining and farming—and interacted with others who ...

“They’ve been able to reconstruct — depending on the language — 1,000 to 1,500 words in Proto-Indo-European. “If the Proto-Indo-Europeans had words for axles and wagons, it tells us ...

Originating from the Proto-Indo-European (PIE) language, historians and linguists since the 19th century have been investigating its origins and spread as there is still a knowledge gap.

Proto: How One Ancient Language Went Global. By Laura Spinney. Bloomsbury; 352 pages; $29.99. William Collins; £22 Dante did like a category. Famously, he split sinners into different circles in ...

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 ...

Altogether, linguists identify some 140 languages that derive from an original Proto-Indo-European. It is a remarkable, far-flung family indeed. At present over two billion people, roughly half ...