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This is a guest post by an anonymous contributor . I don't necessarily agree with its findings, but I think it's a good way to get t...

In their recent paper, titled Early contact between late farming and pastoralist societies in southeastern Europe , Penske et al. make the f...

I think we'll see the emergence of two main competing proto-Indo-European (PIE) homeland theories over the next few years: - a homelan...

At least four individuals from the Late Chalcolithic (LC) burial site of Arslantepe show ancestry typical of the population associated with ...

Archeologist David Anthony has teamed up with Harvard's David Reich Lab to work on a paper about the Eneolithic period on the Pontic-Ca...

I feel like I've spent a good part of 2019 banging my head against a thicker than average brick wall. Much of this feeling is tied to...

I'm reading a new book titled Dispersals and Diversification: Linguistic and Archaeological Perspectives on the Early Stages of Indo-Eur...

Archeologist David Anthony has a new paper on the Indo-European homeland debate titled Archaeology, Genetics, and Language in the Steppes: A...

Not too many people have been buried sitting on wagons. The most famous case is that of an Early Bronze Age man who, considering his injurie...

Let's speculate about the linguistic affinities of the currently available ancient populations from the Caucasus and surrounds. I put to...

Who were the Steppe Maykop people exactly? Their ancestry must surely rank as one of the biggest surprises served up by ancient DNA to date....

Last year, the preprint that claimed to have presented archaeogenetic data that opened up the possibility of the Proto-Indo-European (PIE) h...

I have some interesting news. It looks like Khvalynsk_Eneolithic I0434 can be used as essentially a perfect proxy for the Eneolithic steppe ...

I was going to write this post after the genotype data from the Wang et al. preprint on the genetic prehistory of the Greater Caucasus beca...