Massive migration from the steppe was a source for Indo-European languages in Europe

Nature

Volumn 522, Issue 7555, 2015, Pages 207-211

  Haak, Wolfgang ^a   Lazaridis, Iosif ^b,c   Patterson, Nick ^c   Rohland, Nadin ^b,c   Mallick, Swapan ^b,c   Llamas, Bastien ^a   Brandt, Guido ^d   Nordenfelt, Susanne ^b,c   Harney, Eadaoin ^b,c   Stewardson, Kristin ^b,c   Fu, Qiaomei ^b,c,e,f   Mittnik, Alissa ^g   Bánffy, Eszter ^h,i   Economou, Christos ^j   Francken, Michael ^g   Friederich, Susanne ^k   Pena, Rafael Garrido ^l   Hallgren, Fredrik ^m   Khartanovich, Valery ⁿ   Khokhlov, Aleksandr ^o   Kunst, Michael ^p   Kuznetsov, Pavel ^o   Meller, Harald ^k   Mochalov, Oleg ^o   Moiseyev, Vayacheslav ⁿ   Nicklisch, Nicole ^d,k,q   Pichler, Sandra L ^r   Risch, Roberto ^s   Rojo Guerra, Manuel A ^t   Roth, Christina ^d   Szécsényi Nagy, Anna ^d,h   Wahl, Joachim ^u   Meyer, Matthias ^e   Krause, Johannes ^g,v   Brown, Dorcas ^w   Anthony, David ^w   Cooper, Alan ^a   Alt, Kurt Werner ^d,k,q,r   Reich, David ^b,c   more..

^a UNIVERSITY OF ADELAIDE   (Australia)

^b HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^c MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^d JOHANNES GUTENBERG UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^e MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR EVOLUTIONARY ANTHROPOLOGY   (Germany)

^f INSTITUTE OF GEOLOGY AND GEOPHYSICS   (China)

^g UNIVERSITY OF TÜBINGEN   (Germany)

^h INSTITUTE OF EXPERIMENTAL MEDICINE   (Hungary)

ⁱ Römisch Germanische Kommission in Frankfurt am Main   (Germany)

^j STOCKHOLM UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^k State Office for Heritage Management and Archaeology Saxony Anhalt and State Heritage Museum   (Germany)

^l UNIVERSIDAD AUTÓNOMA DE MADRID   (Spain)

^m Cultural Heritage Foundation   (Sweden)

ⁿ RUSSIAN ACADEMY OF SCIENCES   (Russian Federation)

^o SAMARA STATE UNIVERSITY OF SOCIAL SCIENCES AND EDUCATION   (Russian Federation)

^p GERMAN ARCHAEOLOGICAL INSTITUTE   (Germany)

^q Austria   (Austria)

^r UNIVERSITY OF BASEL   (Switzerland)

^s UNIVERSITAT AUTÒNOMA DE BARCELONA   (Spain)

^t UNIVERSITY OF VALLADOLID   (Spain)

^u State Office for Cultural Heritage Management Baden Wuerttemberg   (Germany)

^v MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR THE SCIENCE OF HUMAN HISTORY   (Germany)

^w HARTWICK COLLEGE   (United States)

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Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

LANGUAGE; MIGRATORY POPULATION; STEPPE;

AGRICULTURAL WORKER; ARTICLE; DNA DETERMINATION; DNA LIBRARY; EASTERN EUROPE; GENETIC ASSOCIATION; GENETIC POLYMORPHISM; GERMANY; HUMAN; HUNGARY; INDO EUROPEAN LANGUAGE; LANGUAGE; MIGRATION; NEOLITHIC; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RUSSIAN FEDERATION; SPAIN; STEPPE; CULTURAL ANTHROPOLOGY; ETHNOLOGY; EUROPE; GENETICS; GRASSLAND; HISTORY; HUMAN GENOME; MALE; POPULATION DYNAMICS;

EUROPE;

CULTURAL EVOLUTION; EUROPE; GENOME, HUMAN; GRASSLAND; HISTORY, ANCIENT; HUMAN MIGRATION; HUMANS; LANGUAGE; MALE; POLYMORPHISM, GENETIC; POPULATION DYNAMICS; RUSSIA;

EID: 84930953216     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: 14764687     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nature14317     Document Type: Article

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