Photo of Remontnoye (3766–3637 calBCE), with a spiral temple ring. Credit: Natalia Shishlina (co-author of "The Genetic Origin of the Indo-Europeans") Photo of Remontnoye (3766–3637 calBCE), with a ...
Indo-European languages spoken by nearly half of the world today originated from an ancient population that lived in the ...
Grave of a woman buried with a spiral ring, which is an artifact typically associated with the Yamnaya culture. Her posture is a feature of Maikop culture burials, and researchers have determined that ...
A pair of landmark studies, published Wednesday in the journal Nature, has finally identified the originators of the Indo-European family of 400-plus languages, spoken today by more than 40% of the ...
A deeper reach into human history is now possible, thanks to a growing body of archaeological data collected using advanced technologies and patient scholarly detective work accumulated across recent ...
A research led by scientists from the University of Vienna and Harvard University describes the role of a previously unidentified prehistoric population in shaping the linguistic landscape that ...
Ever since eighteenth-century scholars recognized that Latin, Greek, and Sanskrit all descended from a common language, researchers have been consumed with determining who first spoke this ancient ...
About 5,000 years ago, a group of herders living in the grasslands north of the Black Sea headed west, taking their animals with them. They got as far as the Carpathian Basin — the western extremity ...
Where lies the origin of the Indo-European language family? Ron Pinhasi and his team in the Department of Evolutionary Anthropology at the University of Vienna contribute a new piece to this puzzle in ...