The Yamnaya were originally dark-skinned, with dark hair and brown eyes; their descendants in Western Europe inherited genes for blue eyes and lighter skin from the women they conquered.

Yamnaya artifacts from their homeland in Russia ... “For the most part, they stayed separate.” A woman harvests wheat by hand near Konya, Turkey. Farmers from Anatolia brought agriculture ...

The study pushes back the beginning of this group even before the Yamnaya culture, stated Harvard. The discovery came to ...

This is a reconstruction of the Yamnaya skull. A typical Yamnaya individual from the Caspian steppe in Russia ca. 5,000-4,800 BP. Yamnaya people were tall and were buried in deep pits covered by a ...

Yamnaya people moved into Central Asia from the region around present day Caucasus in early Bronze Age (c. 5000 years ago) and developed the Afanasievo culture. The Afanasievo are one of the ...

The Yamnaya Impact on Prehistoric Europe (YMPACT) is an international and interdisciplinary research project based at the University of Helsinki Department of Cultures and funded by the European ...

For about half the people alive today, the story of where they came from just became clearer. For centuries, historians and linguists have been searching for the cradle of the Indo-Europeans, an ...