Archaeologists do it in holes: Tales from the stratigraphy

[Legbiter]

Those Yamnaya show up everywhere!

Horse, wheel and...milk. 

[crazy canuck]

Archeogenetics just solved the origins of the Hittites. This is an amazing paper.

The Genetic Origin of the Indo-Europeans

Seems a confirmation of the work of Anthony rather than a new discovery.

https://press.princeton.edu/books/paperback/9780691148182/the-horse-the-wheel-and-language

[The Minsky Moment]

Seems a confirmation of the work of Anthony rather than a new discovery.

Not a huge surprise, as he's a listed author on the paper. 

[crazy canuck]

Seems a confirmation of the work of Anthony rather than a new discovery.

Not a huge surprise, as he's a listed author on the paper. 

Not sure what the emoji is for. I was pointing out that it is not correct to say that it was just now figured out.

[The Minsky Moment]

CLV cline people with Lower Volga ancestry contributed four fifths of the ancestry of the Yamnaya, but also, entering Anatolia from the east, contributed at least a tenth of the ancestry of Bronze Age Central Anatolians, where the Hittite language, related to the Indo-European languages spread by the Yamnaya, was spoken.

Most of the genetic ancestry of the Anatolians seems to have been Mesopotamian.  But the language comes from the CLV minority coming from the east, according to the paper.