The pre-Indo-European languages are any of several ancient languages, not necessarily related to one another, that existed in Prehistoric Europe, Asia Minor, Ancient Iran and Southern Asia before the arrival of speakers of Indo-European languages.

The maps are centered on European prehistory and history, and their Eurasian connections, so the borders of cultures and peoples beyond them – especially South-East Asia and Africa – are more inexact.

The Indo-European migrations are hypothesized migrations of peoples who spoke Proto-Indo-European (PIE) and the derived Indo-European languages, which took place from around 4000 to 1000 BCE, potentially explaining how these related languages came to be spoken across a large area of Eurasia spanning from the Indian subcontinent and Iranian ...

Indo-European is assumed to have spread from the Pontic steppe at the very beginning of the Bronze Age, reaching Western Europe contemporary with the Beaker culture, after about 5,000 years ago.

Dec 4, 2018 · Prehistoric Map is an interactive map that shows prehistory as archaeological cultures in time and space. The focus is firstly at the prehistory of Europe, and with a focus at European Bronze Age cultures associated with the Indo …

In the north-west and western centre were various pre-Celtic Indo-European groups. These were probably the descendants of the first wave of Indo-European arrivals, followers of the Urnfield culture of Central Europe, and possibly Q-Italic speakers rather than true proto-Celts.

Maps of hypothetical distribution of prehistoric languages and their evolution, based on data from archaeology and population genomics.

Mar 28, 2020 · Map of Upper Palaeolithic migrations, from the collection of Maps of prehistoric migrations. For context and reference, please read the book on Indo-European and Uralic migrations . Click on each file to open or download the full version.

Jan 5, 2010 · How different did pre-indoeuropeans peoples of Europe, look compared to the indo-europeans who invaded europe ? Europe wasn't homogenous prior to the IE invasion. It was already hybridised between indigenous haplogroup I populations and Near-Eastern farmers. The hg I populations were not even the same everywhere.

Feb 5, 2025 · Between 3300 bc and 1500 bc, people of the Yamnaya archaeological complex and their descendants spread Indo-European languages from the steppe 2, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12 and transformed Europe,...