In what is now Germany, “there’s a 70 percent to possibly ... That could explain both their surprising collapse and the rapid spread of Yamnaya DNA from Russia to Britain.

New DNA research shows that half the human beings alive today are descended from the Yamnaya, who lived in Ukraine 5,000 years ago. For about half the people alive today, the story of where they ...

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 ...

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 ...

DNA evidence places them ... fuller picture of the continent's Yamnaya set of ancestors. "They turned over the population of Europe with huge disruptions in Germany, Spain, Italy, Hungary ...