Posted on 02/08/2025 1:01:46 PM PST by SunkenCiv
Paleoanthropologists from the University of Vienna and Harvard University have analyzed ancient DNA from 435 individuals from Eurasian archaeological sites... They've discovered a previously unknown group, called Caucasus-Lower Volga (CLV) people, and found out that this population can be connected to all Indo-European-speaking populations.
Indo-European languages, which number over 400 and include major groups such as Germanic, Romance, Slavic, Indo-Iranian, and Celtic, are spoken by nearly half the world's population today...
These migrations out of the steppes had the largest effect on European human genomes of any demographic event in the last 5,000 years and are widely regarded as the probable vector for the spread of Indo-European languages.
The only branch of Indo-European language that had not exhibited any steppe ancestry previously was Anatolian, including Hittite, probably the oldest branch to split away, uniquely preserving linguistic archaisms that were lost in all other Indo-European branches.
Previous studies had not found steppe ancestry among the Hittites because, the new paper argues, the Anatolian languages were descended from a language spoken by a group that had not been adequately described before, a Chalcolithic population...
When the genetics of this newly-recognized Caucasus-Lower Volga population are used as a source, at least five individuals in Anatolia dated before or during the Hittite era show Caucasus-Lower Volga ancestry.
The new study shows the Yamnaya population to have derived about 80% of its ancestry from the Caucasus-Lower Volga group, which also provided at least one-tenth of the ancestry of Bronze Age central Anatolians, speakers of Hittite.
(Excerpt) Read more at sci.news ...
[Archaeology Magazine] Grave of a woman buried with a spiral ring, which is an artifact typically associated with the Yamnaya culture. Her posture is a feature of Maikop culture burials, and researchers have determined that the deceased has 40% Maikop ancestry.Natalia Shishlina
It’s a shame Hitler never had access to this information.
Never mind. He never cared about truth anyway, only power.
It's not a shame at all. What is a shame is that he gives a pretext to people who hate people who speak the Indo-European languages.
The Yamnaya archaeological complex appeared around 3300 BC across the steppes north of the Black and Caspian Seas, and by 3000 BC it reached its maximal extent, ranging from Hungary in the west to Kazakhstan in the east. To localize Yamnaya origins among the preceding Eneolithic people, we assembled ancient DNA from 435 individuals, demonstrating three genetic clines. A Caucasus–lower Volga (CLV) cline suffused with Caucasus hunter-gatherer1 ancestry extended between a Caucasus Neolithic southern end and a northern end at Berezhnovka along the lower Volga river. Bidirectional gene flow created intermediate populations, such as the north Caucasus Maikop people, and those at Remontnoye on the steppe. The Volga cline was formed as CLV people mixed with upriver populations of Eastern hunter-gatherer2 ancestry, creating hypervariable groups, including one at Khvalynsk. The Dnipro cline was formed when CLV people moved west, mixing with people with Ukraine Neolithic hunter-gatherer ancestry3 along the Dnipro and Don rivers to establish Serednii Stih groups, from whom Yamnaya ancestors formed around 4000 BC and grew rapidly after 3750–3350 BC. The CLV people contributed around four-fifths of the ancestry of the Yamnaya and, entering Anatolia, probably from the east, at least one-tenth of the ancestry of Bronze Age central Anatolians, who spoke Hittite4,5. We therefore propose that the final unity of the speakers of ‘proto-Indo-Anatolian’, the language ancestral to both Anatolian and Indo-European people, occurred in CLV people some time between 4400 BC and 4000 BC.”
I don't have institutional access to Nature anymore. This is one paper I'd like to read.
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Interesting stuff.
Thanks Varda. Wow, $199 a year, not be cheap! I wonder if the local library (it’s been ages since I visited) has courtesy access...
Thanks!
Yes, I may have to wonder down there. I doubt they have it but maybe they can order it.
I used to (wow, come to think of it, circa 26 years ago) I spent time at a local college (I think it’s a university now) library, and for $15 bucks a semester or term, whichever, I could borrow books and access their other services, like copies of articles from journals. If they’d had the wonderful WWW we do now, I’d have been all set. :^)
Right and an only slightly later and little further east group, the Sintashta, (a semi-pastoral horse culture) refinded horse herding and horse management.
They invented the spoked wheel. The wheel had already been around but was a large wooden disc, so large and heavy that a cart had to be pulled by oxen and was very slow.
The Sintashta also invented the chariot which was light and very fast because of the spoked wheel. It was a real giant step for migration and warfare. These people are VERY interesting. Only part of the year they lived in settlements which were circular, with all dwellings joined, and acessible from the side walls. Each dwelling had its own well and forge.
MUST SEE... https://www.youtube.com/clip/UgkxCgJKr9MigLtBhimMxNMrG6X5Q2rsq65L
$15 is a deal. Paying for all those journals is pricey.
Thanks for that link I’ll take a look.
Tom Rowsell’s pod casts are great
But where did Hungarian come from?
Any Y-dna haplogroups determined?
Hungarian (with Finnish and Estonian) are Finno-Ugric languages; supposedly their nearest-related languages are Turkish and (more distantly, of course) Korean.
It’s kind of a drive now, but I may check this out.
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