New Insights into the Roots of the Indo-Europeans: How the Caucasus-Lower Volga Cline Shaped Their Genetic and Linguistic Heritage

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New Insights into the Roots of the Indo-Europeans: How the Caucasus-Lower Volga Cline Shaped Their Genetic and Linguistic Heritage

Summary Figure: The origin of Indo-Anatolian and Indo-European languages. Genetic reconstruction of the ancestry of PonticCaspian steppe and West Asian populations points to the North Caucasus-Lower Volga area as the homeland of Indo-Anatolian languages and to the Serednii Stih archaeological culture of the Dnipro-Don area as the homeland of Indo-European languages. The Caucasus-Lower Volga people had diverse distal roots, estimated using the qp…