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

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

New DNA research shows that half the human beings alive today are descended from the Yamnaya, who lived in Ukraine 5,000 ...

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

"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 ...

and that the dispersal of members of the Yamnaya culture, whose most striking cultural practice still visible today was the construction of burial mounds known as kurgans, began in the second half of ...

Recent archaeological discoveries in Tamil Nadu reveal South India as an early hub of iron smelting, challenging historical ...

Ancient DNA is telling us more and more about humans and environments long past. Could it also help rescue the future?

Specialists examined the genomes of about 400 representatives of the "Yamnaya" culture. It was spread between 3300 and 2600 years in the steppes north of the Black and Caspian seas. Its peculiarity is ...