Learn more about groundbreaking genetic research that reveals a long-lost population and solves a centuries-old linguistic mystery.
Thousands of years ago, a group of hunter-gatherers roamed the steppes of southern Russia, fishing in its rivers and hunting ...
These language families, including Germanic, Indo-Iranian and Celtic, evolved from a common tongue called the ...
A pair of landmark studies has genetically identified the originators of the massive Indo-European family of 400-plus ...
For decades, the leading theory for the ubiquity of Indo-European languages was that early farmers, living in a region known ...
Ancient DNA analysis reveals that sheep were domesticated over 11,000 years ago in the Fertile Crescent. By 8,000 years ago, ...
Europeans living today, in whatever country, are a varying mix of ancient bloodlines hailing from Africa, the Middle East, and the Russian steppe. The evidence comes from archaeological artifacts ...
Sheep have been part of human life for over 11,000 years. First domesticated in the western Fertile Crescent, their impact ...
Where lies the origin of the Indo-European language family? Ron Pinhasi and his team in the Department of Evolutionary ...
Sheep have been intertwined with human livelihoods for over 11,000 years. As well as meat, their domestication led to humans ...