Researchers recovered the first Yersinia pestis bacteria genome from a Bronze Age animal. It reveals how a plague spread in ...

There’s one particular area, called the Eurasian steppe, that stretches from Hungary in the west across the Ukraine and Central Asia all the way to Manchuria in the east, about 5,000 miles long.

A new study maps the genetic origins of Scythians, showing diverse steppe and minor Asian ancestry and revising long‑held ...

One prevailing theory links the Huns to the Xiongnu, a powerful confederation that ruled the Eurasian steppe from around 200 BCE to 100 CE. The Xiongnu controlled vast territories, stretching from ...

Previous genetic and archaeological surveys suggest the Yamnaya people, a group of pastoralists from the western steppe began expanding across Pontic-Caspian steppe around 3000 B.C.

Dairying enabled Early Bronze Age Yamnaya steppe expansions. Nature, 2021; DOI: 10.1038/s41586-021-03798-4 ...

The Scythians, pastoral nomads who roamed the Central Eurasian steppe zone from around the eighth century B.C., are traditionally dismissed as uncouth predators whose legacy was negative ...

The 9,000 km long Eurasian forest-steppe zone forms a transition between temperate forests and steppe and is a complex mosaic of herbaceous and woody habitats. Thanks to its structural diversity ...

The genetic profile of the western Eurasian horse began to spread out across Eurasia; replacing existing lineages as it did so. By 3,000 years ago, it had replaced all other genetic profiles in ...

Researchers report cultural transmission of dairy herding between western and eastern Eurasian steppes during the Bronze Age, despite limited genetic admixture between the two groups.

Object Details Author Linduff, Katheryn M Rubinson, Karen Sydney 1943- Contents Introduction: The nature of nomads, cultural variation, and gender roles past and present / Katheryn M. Linduff and ...