How a Scientific Revolution is Rewriting Their Story is its starting point, specifically, determining where it was. He hopes ...

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 ...

The world's first horseback riders swept across the steppe roughly 5,000 ... The new analysis came from 217 human skeletons from the Pontic-Caspian steppe, a geographical area that runs roughly ...

Ötzi was balding, dark-skinned and didn’t have ancestors from the Caspian steppe Though the Iceman mummy’s skin is obviously dark, scientists used to think that was a result of being frozen ...

Skeletons unearthed from graves in southeastern Europe bear the earliest known evidence of horse riding in the archaeological record, new research has revealed.

A likely common ancestor of Indo-European languages, including English and Sanskrit, may have been spoken about 8,100 years ago, a new analysis suggests.. The research, according to scientists ...

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