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Close ✕The Pontic–Caspian steppe
The belt of grassland north of the Black Sea and the Caspian, running roughly from the lower Danube across southern Ukraine and southern Russia towards the Volga and the Urals, and the…
47.5, 37.0 · regional · permanent geographic feature; pastoral occupation from the fifth millennium BCE
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- is assesses of Ancient DNA as a check on linguistic prehistory — Ancient genomics measures whether a proposed dispersal from the steppe was accompanied by a movement of people, which linguistics cannot determine on its own.
- is originates in of Proto-Indo-European — The steppe hypothesis, supported by reconstructed wheeled-vehicle vocabulary and by the 2015 ancient-DNA evidence for a large third-millennium migration, is the majority position — but the homeland is genuinely contested and this edge asserts a hypothesis, not a settled fact.
Mission history61 missions · 1959 → 2026 · 2 planned
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