The New Criterion14d
Diving into the Indo-European gene pool
Of course such dullards exist, and I have elsewhere in these pages chastised a couple of Latinists, of all people, for their ...
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Landmark studies track source of Indo-European languages spoken by 40% of world
The so-called steppe hypothesis, formulated during the 19th century and formalized in the 1950s, postulated that speakers of the ancestor language of the Indo-European group lived on the Eurasian ...
National Geographic news1y
The first Europeans weren’t who you might think
that proto-Indo-Europeans migrated into Europe from the Russian steppe, not the other way around. Second, together with archaeology it amounts to a rejection of Kossinna’s claim that some kind ...
The Harvard Crimson1mon
Harvard Researchers Discover Origin of Indo-European Language Family
“If the Proto-Indo-Europeans had words for axles and wagons ... the globe from various grasslands across Eurasia known as steppes. This “homeland” of Indo-Europeans was “one of the ...
Popular Mechanics1mon
Scientists Just Discovered Where One of Europe’s Oldest Ancestors Came From
It is thought that Indo-European languages ... ancient herders known as the Yamna people emerged from the steppes of what is now Ukraine, going on to spread across Europe and become one of ...
AOL.co.uk1mon
DNA study cracks centuries-old mystery over origin of languages spoken by half the world
However, one group of Indo-European languages – the Anatolian – does not exhibit any steppe ancestry. Anatolian languages, including Hittite, are the oldest branch of the Indo-European tongues ...