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

Hardened dental plaque coating the ancient teeth of Bronze Age pastoralists suggests the emergence of dairying and milk-drinking coincided with a wave of migration across the Pontic-Caspian steppe.

Ancient genomes suggest the eastern Pontic-Caspian steppe as the source of western Iron Age nomads. Science Advances, 2018; 4 (10): eaat4457 DOI: 10.1126/sciadv.aat4457; ...

When present day European genetics was formed during the beginning of the Bronze Age 5,000 years ago it was a result of migrating Yamnaya pastoralists from the Caspian steppe encountering Stone ...

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

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 ...

This is shown in a new study on Bronze and Iron Age genetics of the Pontic-Caspian Steppe, situated in the Black Sea region. The article is published in the scientific journal Science Advances.