Where lies the origin of the Indo-European language family? Ron Pinhasi and his team in the Department of Evolutionary Anthropology at the University of Vienna contribute a new piece to this puzzle in ...

A team of 91 researchers—including famed geneticist Eske Willerslev at the Lundbeck Foundation GeoGenetics Center, University of Copenhagen—has discovered a Bronze Age genetic divergence connected to ...

Explore the Dodecad Ancestry Project's insights into Indo-Aryan origins and the Dagestani ancestral component. Repeated runs and higher K's make it clear that the French Basque lack a "West Asian" ...

List of figures -- List of maps -- List of tables -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: The Indo-European debate and why it matters -- Part I. The vexatious history of Indo-European studies. Ideology ...

On new research by the scholar David Reich. Among the great intellectual developments of the nineteenth century was the advent of the comparative method in the nascent field of linguistics. Among the ...

If you have studied almost any European language, you will have noticed words that felt oddly familiar. French mort (dead) recalls English murder. German Hund (dog) is a dead ringer for hound. Czech ...

Learn more about groundbreaking genetic research that reveals a long-lost population and solves a centuries-old linguistic mystery. Ancient DNA analysis has allowed us to make some groundbreaking ...

From 4000 BCE, the Indo-Europeans began to spread from the western Steppes, dominating regions from Gaul to India by 500 BCE.