The Kurgan from the movie Highlander wasn't based on a specific person but on a real-life people: the Kurgans, an ancient nomadic people from the Pontic-Caspian steppe (parts of modern Ukraine ...

This is a great burial mound (Kurgan) from the Bronze Age in the Caspian Steppe. Disclaimer: AAAS and EurekAlert! are not responsible for the accuracy of news releases posted to EurekAlert!

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 ...

Their migration accounted for the appearance of "steppe ancestry" in populations across Eurasia between 3100BC and 1500BC, having the largest effect on European human genomes of any demographic ...