"A Clan Chief’s Daughter" is one of those rare stories — a lyrical, emotionally layered journey through prehistoric steppes ...

Most of the skeletons belonged to a group of people known as the Yamnaya, cattle and sheep herders who originated on the Pontic-Caspian steppe that stretches from southeastern Europe into ...

A new look at Ötzi the Iceman’s DNA reveals new ancestry and other surprises Ötzi was balding, dark-skinned and didn’t have ancestors from the Caspian steppe ...

Mammals New study reveals how humans harnessed the lineage of ancient horses, scientists say Horses experienced a major lineage shift 4,200 years ago, starting in the Pontic-Caspian Steppe ...

At Its Beginnings, Only a Handful of People Spoke This Language. It’s the Origin of Every Word You Say. Story by Laura Miller • 1w ...

However, modern scholars differentiate between the “Scythians proper” of the Pontic-Caspian steppe and related but distinct peoples such as the Saka (to the east), the Massagetae, and the ...

One is the Steppe hypothesis, which proposes an origin in the Pontic-Caspian Steppe around 6,000 years ago.

Horses were domesticated approximately 5,500 years ago, on the Pontic-Caspian Steppe, a swath of grassland stretching from Eastern Europe to Central Asia.

The world's first horseback riders swept across the steppe roughly 5,000 years ago, a new skeletal analysis of tombs across Europe and Asia reveals.