Half of humanity shares an ancestral link to an ancient group of people from Ukraine, reshaping our understanding of human ...

Half of the human beings alive today are descended from the Yamnaya, a group that lived in what is now Ukraine 5,000 years ...

According to the results of DNA research, almost half of the world's population may originate from the yamnaya culture that ...

Yamnaya artifacts from their homeland in Russia ... Farther north, from Russia to the Rhine, a new culture sprang up, called Corded Ware after its pottery, which was decorated by pressing string ...

Yamnaya people moved into Central Asia from the region around present day Caucasus in early Bronze Age (c. 5000 years ago) and developed the Afanasievo culture. The Afanasievo are one of the ...

For decades, scholars debated between the Steppe Theory, which posits that the Indo-European languages originated with the Yamnaya culture in the Pontic-Caspian steppe, and the Anatolian ...

"Suppose the Yamnaya had a different culture," Patterson offered. "Suppose they had cremated their dead. Chances are, we wouldn't even know about this crucial culture in human history." More ...

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 ...

The Yamnaya Impact on Prehistoric Europe (YMPACT) is an international and interdisciplinary research project based at the University of Helsinki Department of Cultures and funded by the European ...