A hybrid model is proposed for the Indo-European origin

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1. Story
2. Heggarty and colleagues published a phylogenetic analysis using a substantially revised cognate dataset and a model allowing sampled ancestors — that is, allowing attested ancient languages to sit on the tree as ancestors rather than only as tips — and reported a root age older than the steppe hypothesis allows, with an origin south of the Caucasus and a subsequent role for the steppe in the dispersal of the European branches. The result is a hybrid rather than a vindication of either earlier position. As of the compiling of this pack in August 2026 the question is open, and this record deliberately does not report a resolution.
3. Knowledge
4. Bayesian phylogenetic dating of language families
5. Proto-Indo-European
6. Anatolia
7. The Pontic–Caspian steppe
8. A hybrid model is proposed for the Indo-European origin
9. Connections
10. Proto-Indo-European
11. Bayesian phylogenetic dating of language families
12. Anatolia
13. The Pontic–Caspian steppe
14. Indo-European
15. The comparative method
16. Anatolia
17. The Pontic–Caspian steppe
18. Saussure posits consonants no language attests
19. Kuryłowicz matches Hittite h to Saussure's coefficients
20. Proto-Indo-European is spoken
21. A Bayesian phylogeny dates Indo-European to the Anatolian Neolithic
22. Ancient DNA finds a mass movement from the steppe into Europe
23. A hybrid model is proposed for the Indo-European origin
24. The comparative method
25. Glottochronology
26. A language tree is tested against a settlement chronology
27. A Bayesian phylogeny dates Indo-European to the Anatolian Neolithic
28. Phylogeography puts the Indo-European homeland in Anatolia
29. A hybrid model is proposed for the Indo-European origin
30. A dated phylogeny puts Sino-Tibetan at roughly seven thousand years
31. A second phylogeny puts the same family at roughly six thousand years
32. Proto-Indo-European
33. Hattusa (Boğazkale)
34. A Bayesian phylogeny dates Indo-European to the Anatolian Neolithic
35. Phylogeography puts the Indo-European homeland in Anatolia
36. A hybrid model is proposed for the Indo-European origin
37. Ancient DNA as a check on linguistic prehistory
38. Proto-Indo-European
39. Proto-Indo-European is spoken
40. Ancient DNA finds a mass movement from the steppe into Europe
41. A hybrid model is proposed for the Indo-European origin
42. Evidence
43. Supports the existence of a recent hybrid proposal placing the Indo-European root earlier than the steppe hypothesis allows and south of the Caucasus, with a secondary steppe role in the European dispersal. V55 verification basis: this session had no access to any source — WebFetch was egress-blocked for every host attempted and the WebSearch budget was exhausted before authoring — so the cited work was not retrieved, and no page, volume or figure quoted from it was re-checked. The root age reported by the paper is deliberately not quoted; the summary of its conclusion is held from standing knowledge and its reception since publication could not be assessed as of August 2026.