The Yamnaya were a group of livestock herders who lived north of the Black Sea and in the Caucasus mountains in modern day Russia and Ukraine. The group and their descendants arrived in Europe ...

WASHINGTON — The tale of the first horseback riders may be written on the bones of the ancient Yamnaya people. Five excavated skeletons dated to about 3000 to 2500 B.C. show clear signs of ...

The migrants’ ultimate source was a group of livestock herders called the Yamnaya who occupied the Eurasian steppe north of the Black Sea and the Caucasus mountains.… ...

The research was published in two papers in the scientific journal Nature last month. The name Yamnaya comes from the pits (yama in Ukrainian and Russian) in which they buried their dead beneath ...

This is a reconstruction of the Yamnaya skull. A typical Yamnaya individual from the Caspian steppe in Russia ca. 5,000-4,800 BP. Yamnaya people were tall and were buried in deep pits covered by a ...

A new discovery of skeletal remains of Yamnaya from as far as 5 millennia ago may have documented the earliest signs of horseback riding utilized by humanity, according to a new study released on ...

Archaeologists excavated a dirt mound and found an ancient Yamnaya culture grave, a first-of-its-kind find for Slovakia, photos show. Photo from the Slovak Academy of Sciences Inside a relatively ...

Colin Barras discusses the fascinating genetic and archaeological evidence for the spread of the Yamnaya people from the Steppes through Europe, the Near East and India 30 March, p 29. He ...

On 27th of March 2020 professor Volker Heyd held a lecture titled "Being a Young Yamnaya Woman" for the Helsinki Archaeology Seminar. Given the spring 2020 situation with the covid-19 pandemic, the ...