Thursday, February 27, 2025

David Reich's ancient DNA research group finally cracks the Proto-Indo-European origin: Caucasus Lower Volga people

 

 David Reich presents his prepublished research results on origins of the IndoEuropeans - video lecture

 

 https://hms.harvard.edu/news/ancient-dna-study-identifies-originators-indo-european-language-family

But researchers encountered a hitch in the Yamnaya line in the Anatolian peninsula, where an extinct set of Indo-European languages was spoken during the Bronze Age. Linguists have long believed they represent an early split from Proto-Indo-European. The 21st-century advent of ancient DNA science surfaced similar results.

“We know from cuneiform tablets that people such as the Hittites spoke Anatolian, but these people didn’t have Yamnaya ancestry,” Reich noted. “We looked hard, with lots of data. We didn’t find anything. So we hypothesized some deeper population was the ultimate source in Indo-European languages.”

The Caucasus Lower Volga people is that original source, the authors said.

The work uncovers new links between those people and both the Yamnaya and the ancient Indo-Anatolian speakers who inhabited an area that is now part of Turkey. 

 The population lived on the Eurasian steppe within the borders of current-day Russia during the Copper Age about 6,500 years ago, data show.

 Lazaridis I, Patterson N, Anthony D, Vyazov L, Fournier R, Ringbauer H, Olalde I, Khokhlov AA, Kitov EP, Shishlina N, Ailincai SC, Agapov DS, Agapov SA, Batieva E, Bauyrzhan B, Bereczki Z, Buzhilova A, Changmai P, Chizhevsky AA, Ciobanu I, Constantinescu M, Csányi M, Dani J, Dashkovskiy PK, Evinger S, Faifert A, Flegontov PN, Frînculeasa A, Frînculeasa MN, Hajdu T, Higham T, Jarosz P, Jelinek P, Khartanovich VI, Kirginekov EN, Kiss V, Kitova A, Kiyashko AV, Koledin J, Korolev A, Kosintsev P, Kulcsar G, Kuznetsov P, Magomedov R, Malikovich MA, Melis E, Moiseyev V, Molnar E, Monge J, Negrea O, Nikolaeva NA, Novak M, Ochir-Goryaeva M, Palfi G, Popovici S, Rykun MP, Savenkova TM, Semibratov VP, Seregin NN, Šefčáková A, Serikovna MR, Shingiray I, Shirokov VN, Simalcsik A, Sirak K, Solodovnikov KN, Tárnoki J, Tishkin AA, Trifonov V, Vasilyev S, Akbari A, Brielle ES, Callan K, Candilio F, Cheronet O, Curtis E, Flegontova O, Iliev L, Kearns A, Keating D, Lawson AM, Mah M, Micco A, Michel M, Oppenheimer J, Qiu L, Workman JN, Zalzala F, Szécsényi-Nagy A, Palamara PF, Mallick S, Rohland N, Pinhasi R, Reich D (2025) The Genetic Origin of the Indo-Europeans. Nature, Advance online publication. (PDF / SUPPLEMENT /  DOI: 10.1038/s41586-024-08531-5 / PMID: 39910300)

 https://reich.hms.harvard.edu/publications

 https://reich.hms.harvard.edu/sites/reich.hms.harvard.edu/files/inline-files/2025_LazaridisPattersonAnthonyVyazov_IndoEuropean_Nature.pdf

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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