Indo-European cereal terminology suggests a Northwest Pontic homeland for the core Indo-European languages.

ABSTRACT: Questions on the timing and the center of the Indo-European language dispersal are central to debates on the formation of the European and Asian linguistic landscapes and are deeply intertwined with questions on the archaeology and population history of these continents. Recent palaeogenomic studies support scenarios in which the core Indo-European languages spread with the expansion of Early Bronze Age Yamnaya herders that originally inhabited the East European steppes. Questions on the Yamnaya and Pre-Yamnaya locations of the language community that ultimately gave rise to the Indo-European language family are heavily dependent on linguistic reconstruction of the subsistence of Proto-Indo-European speakers. A central question, therefore, is how important the role of agriculture was among

SUBMITTER: Kroonen G 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9555676 | biostudies-literature | 2022

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature