The ancient horsemen who created the modern world
New DNA research shows that half the human beings alive today are descended from the Yamnaya, who lived in Ukraine 5,000 ...
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Yamnaya Bronze (IMAGE)
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 ...
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A Yamnaya Skull (IMAGE)
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 ...
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The first Europeans weren’t who you might think
Yamnaya artifacts from their homeland in Russia ... Beginning in 2014, Baird sent samples of DNA extracted from skull fragments and teeth from more than a dozen burials to DNA labs in Sweden ...