Genetic and geographical origins of Eurasia’s influential Yamna culture
Pontic–Caspian steppe
2025
Around 5,000 years ago, pastoralists of the Yamna, or Yamnaya, culture from the Pontic–Caspian steppe, which spans eastern Europe and central Asia north of the Black and Caspian seas, rode west into Europe and transformed the cultural and genetic landscape of the continent permanently