Re: Indo-European homeland

 Ar an t-ochtú lá de mí Feabhra, scríobh Christian Weisgerber:

 > [...] There is a new genetics paper out that presents a similar argument. It
 > identifies an original population of Caucasus Lower Volga people that
 > spawned population movements into (1) Anatolia and (2) the Pontic steppe,
 > where it led to the formation of the Yamnaya culture that proceeded to
 > spread Indo-European far and wide.
 >
 > So, assuming that language correlates with genetics, and depending on how
 > you label the nodes, either the origin of PIE shifts east to the
 > Caucasus-Volga region, or it remains in the Pontic steppe north of the Black
 > Sea and Anatolian is a sister language rather than a branch of IE.
 >
 > Lazaridis, I., Patterson, N., Anthony, D. et al.

I hadn’t realised until I loaded the pop-science take that this N. Patterson
was Nick, and this is from the David Reich lab, which has tended to be very
impressive.

Thanks Christian!

 > The genetic origin of the Indo-Europeans
 > Nature (2025)
 > https://doi.org/10.1038/s41586-024-08531-5
 >
 > Pop science take:
 > https://news.harvard.edu/gazette/story/2025/02/landmark-studies-track-source-of-indo-european-languages-spoken-by-40-of-world/

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