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

and Nikitin et al. present genomic data for 367 individuals from the Pontic–Caspian steppe and surrounding areas, doubling the number of available genomes from the Eneolithic period and almost ...

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

The DNA study was split into two papers since Russian and Ukrainian researchers couldn't co-author, Nature reported.

DNA study cracks centuries-old mystery over origin of languages spoken by half the world - Indo-European languages traced to ...

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

Yersinia pestis is the bacterial agent of plague From about 4,800 years ago, there was a major expansion of people into Europe from a region called the Caspian-Pontic Steppe in present-day Russia ...

Ten thousands were built during this period in the Pontic-Caspian steppe, but also in temperate Europe thousands were built as a result of the migrations.

The North Pontic region, including present-day Ukraine, served as a migration hub for centuries, linking the Eurasian Steppe with Central Europe. Genetic analysis of ancient remains reveals high ...