WASHINGTON — The tale of the first horseback riders may be written on the bones of the ancient Yamnaya people. Five excavated skeletons dated to about 3000 to 2500 B.C. show clear signs of physical ...

Archaeologists accidentally discovered the world's earliest horseback riders while studying skeletons found beneath 5,000-year-old burial mounds in Europe and Asia, a new study finds. The ancient ...

Half of the human beings alive today are descended from the Yamnaya culture, a group that lived in what is now Ukraine 5,000 years ago, according to new DNA research led by David Reich, a geneticist ...

The researchers discovered evidence of horse riding by studying the remains of human skeletons found in burial mounds called kurgans, which were between 4500-5000 years old. The earthen burial mounds ...

Archaeologists excavated a dirt mound and found an ancient Yamnaya culture grave, a first-of-its-kind find for Slovakia, photos show. Photo from the Slovak Academy of Sciences Inside a relatively ...

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Researchers interrogating the skeletal remains in kurgans—5,000-year-old burial mounds—found evidence that some of the Neolithic people were riding horses. The findings fill in a gap in two ...

Scientists found that MS began to spread globally through the migration of livestock herders in Eastern Europe 5,000 years ago. Reading time 3 minutes DNA from ancient humans is providing some vital ...

Back in the 1980s the National Dairy Board ran a series of TV commercials with the slogan, “Milk: It Does a Body Good.” The ads were cheesy — and they might have missed milk’s place in the spread of ...

Ancient-genomics researchers have pinpointed the homelands of a nomadic tribe that transformed the culture and genetics of Europe and Asia, revealing a potential source for the Indo-European language ...

Thousands of years ago, a group of hunter-gatherers roamed the steppes of southern Russia, fishing in its rivers and hunting across its vast grasslands. They lived in a world without settlements, ...