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.

By analyzing DNA from ancient skeletons, the researchers found that the CLV people, who lived between the Caucasus Mountains and the lower Volga River, were the ancestors of both the Yamnaya and ...

DNA detectives have discovered that half of the ... thus mixing with a local population to form the Yamnaya. The research was published in two papers in the scientific journal Nature last month.

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 ...

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 ...