New research shows how Indo-European languages spread across Asia

(University of Copenhagen - Faculty of Humanities) A new study has discovered that horses were first domesticated by descendants of hunter-gatherer groups in Kazakhstan who left little direct trace in the ancestry of modern populations. The research sheds new light on the long-standing " steppe theory " on the origin and movement of Indo-European languages made possible by the domestication of the horse.
Source: EurekAlert! - Social and Behavioral Science - Category: International Medicine & Public Health Source Type: news