5 thousand ago Yamnai who lived for years are considered to be the first nomads in the world who raised animals. Finding a way to survive the inhospitable steppes of Eurasia by wandering with their herds and following the seasons, they expanded east and west, leaving almost no physical trace of themselves except long rows of barrows, or kurgans. Nevertheless, they and their descendants later genetically, culturally, and linguistically transformed Europe and much of Asia. Scholars believe that among the many innovations brought by these steppe migrants are the Indo-European languages that dominate Europe today and are spoken by almost half of humanity.
Among the findings that archaeologists discovered in the settlement of Mychailivka in 1952 was a single human tooth. There wasn’t much that could be done with him at the time. But over the past 20 years, the development of tools to extract and analyze ancient DNA has finally allowed scientists to decipher the secrets hidden in this tooth and hundreds of other remains of the Yamnaya nomads.
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