Harvard researchers traced the origins of the vast Indo-European language family to the Caucasus-Lower Volga region, ...

A pair of landmark studies, published Wednesday in the journal Nature, has finally identified the originators of the ...

By analyzing genetic material from over 400 individuals across Eurasia, researchers have traced the origins of Indo-European ...

DNA Evidence of Ancient Population Hints at Common Ancestry of Indo-European Languages New insights regarding the origin of ...

Over 5,300 years ago, ancient herders known as the Yamna people emerged from the steppes of what is now Ukraine, going on to ...

Ancient DNA analysis provides new insights into our linguistic roots. Where did the Indo-European language family originate?

The movement of the Yamnaya people in this direction is widely regarded as the chief vector for the spread of Indo-European languages. However, one group of Indo-European languages – the ...

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 ...

Based on this evidence, the researchers think that the earliest Indo-European languages were spoken by people living in the Caucasus–Lower Volga, who then carried them to Anatolia and to the ...

Indo-European languages (IE), which number over ... the origins of the Indo-Europeans and the routes by which these people spread across Europe and parts of Asia," concludes Pinhasi.