Ancient-DNA analyses identify a Caucasus Lower Volga people as the ancient originators of Proto-Indo-European, the precursor ...

Read the paper: A genomic history of the North Pontic Region from the Neolithic to the Bronze Age Lazaridis et al. and Nikitin et al. present genomic data for 367 individuals from the Pontic ...

The North Pontic region, which encompasses present-day Ukraine, was for centuries a crossroads of migration from multiple directions, connecting the vast Eurasian Steppe with Central Europe.

Indo-European languages spoken by nearly half of the world today originated from an ancient population that lived in the ...

The North Pontic region, which encompasses present-day Ukraine, was for centuries a crossroads of migration from multiple directions, connecting the vast Eurasian Steppe with Central Europe.

A new study reveals fresh clues about Indo-European language origins, tracing an ancestral group's key role in their spread.

Learn more about groundbreaking genetic research that reveals a long-lost population and solves a centuries-old linguistic ...

Where lies the origin of the Indo-European language family? Ron Pinhasi and his team in the Department of Evolutionary ...