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

One group derived from the Yamnaya were the Aryans, who shaped the cultures of ancient India and Iran. In the 20th century, the term Aryan became associated with white supremacy, after theorists ...

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 ...

Yamnaya artifacts from their homeland in Russia ... Nazi propagandists later used that as an intellectual justification for the modern Aryan “master race” to invade eastern Europe.

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 ...