The research was published in two papers in the scientific journal Nature last month. The name Yamnaya comes from the pits (yama in Ukrainian and Russian) in which they buried their dead beneath ...

Others pointed to the Yamnaya, a nomadic herding culture that roamed the steppes of Russia and Ukraine around 5,000 years ago, as the likely pioneers of the root language.

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 ...