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Previous studies have shown that the Yamnaya culture which thrived in the Pontic-Caspian steppes north of the Black and Caspian Seas expanded into Europe and Central Asia beginning about 3100BC.

The new study traced this language group to an ancient population that lived in the steppes between the North Caucasus mountains and the Lower Volga between 4500BC and 3500BC. The DNA analysis ...