A new study claims to have identified the first speakers of Indo-European language, which gave rise to English, Sanskrit and ...

A new study reveals fresh clues about Indo-European language origins, tracing an ancestral group's key role in their spread.

Ancient-DNA analyses identify a Caucasus Lower Volga people as the ancient originators of Proto-Indo-European, the precursor ...

Where lies the origin of the Indo-European language family? Ron Pinhasi and his team in the Department of Evolutionary ...

New research suggests that the first Indo-European speakers lived in southern Russia 6,500 years ago, challenging ...

New genetic evidence traces the roots of English, Sanskrit, and hundreds of other languages to a group of hunter-gatherers in ...

DNA study cracks centuries-old mystery over origin of languages spoken by half the world - Indo-European languages traced to ...

The DNA study was split into two papers since Russian and Ukrainian researchers couldn't co-author, Nature reported.

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Michael Patrick O’Leary I had one of those silly arguments on Facebook which arise from my contrarian nature forcing me to try to squash a stranger coming forward with some received wisdom with no ...

However, relatively little attention has been paid to another key aspect that affects replicability: language. Across fields, language plays a central role in all steps of the research cycle and ...

Lower Volga group therefore can be connected to all Indo-European-speaking populations and is the best candidate for the ...