Copper & Bronze Age
Yamnaya
Mobile steppe pastoralists whose massive expansion reshaped the ancestry of Europe and Central Asia and is tied to the spread of Indo-European languages.
- Period
- Early Bronze Age (c. 3,300–2,600 BCE)
- Region
- the Pontic–Caspian steppe
- Samples
- 215
- Groups
- 50
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Archaeological groups included
Russia Samara EBA YamnayaRussia Kalmykia EBA YamnayaRussia Rostov EBA Don YamnayaMoldova EBA YamnayaKazakhstan Kumsay Kyryk Oba EBA YamnayaHungary Late C EBA YamnayaRussia Orenburg EBA YamnayaRomania EBA YamnayaRussia Rostov EBA YamnayaRussia Chelyabinsk EBA YamnayaRussia Volgograd EBA YamnayaUkraine Odesa EBA Yamnaya
Notable Yamnaya samples
Showing 60 of 215 individuals.
- BOY001Bulgaria Boyanovo EBA Yamnaya
- Bul4Bulgaria Mednikarovo EBA Yamnaya o
- I0231Russia Samara EBA Yamnaya
- I0242Russia Samara EBA Yamnaya
- I0243Russia Samara EBA Yamnaya
- I0245Russia Samara EBA Yamnaya
- I0357Russia Samara EBA Yamnaya
- I0370Russia Orenburg EBA Yamnaya
- I0429Russia Samara EBA Yamnaya
- I0438Russia Samara EBA Yamnaya
- I0439Russia Samara EBA Yamnaya
- I0441Russia Orenburg EBA Yamnaya
- I0443Russia Samara EBA Yamnaya
- I0444Russia Samara EBA Yamnaya
- I10033Russia Orenburg EBA Yamnaya
- I10034Russia Orenburg EBA Yamnaya
- I10174Moldova EBA Yamnaya
- I10206Moldova EBA Yamnaya
- I10208Moldova EBA Yamnaya
- I10362Russia Samara EBA IA c Yamnaya
- I10363Russia Samara EBA Yamnaya
- I10398Moldova EBA Yamnaya
- I10414Moldova EBA Yamnaya
- I10415Moldova EBA Yamnaya
- I10424Moldova EBA Yamnaya
- I10441Russia Volgograd EBA IA c Yamnaya
- I10478Romania EBA Yamnaya
- I10486Romania EBA Yamnaya
- I10498Romania EBA Yamnaya
- I10499Romania EBA Yamnaya
- I10500Romania EBA Yamnaya
- I10567Russia Kalmykia EBA Yamnaya
- I10597Russia Volgograd EBA Yamnaya
- I10627Russia Rostov EBA Yamnaya
- I10628Russia Rostov EBA Yamnaya
- I10630Russia Orenburg EBA Yamnaya
- I10714Russia Samara EBA Yamnaya
- I10891Romania EBA Yamnaya
- I11029Russia Rostov EBA Don Yamnaya
- I11446Serbia EBA Yamnaya
- I11501Kazakhstan Kumsay Kyryk Oba EBA Yamnaya
- I11531Kazakhstan Kumsay Kyryk Oba EBA Yamnaya
- I11676Hungary Late C Yamnaya o
- I11732Kazakhstan Kumsay Kyryk Oba EBA Yamnaya
- I11734Kazakhstan Kumsay Kyryk Oba EBA Yamnaya
- I11829Russia Rostov EBA Don Yamnaya 3
- I11831Russia Orenburg EBA Yamnaya
- I11838Russia Samara EBA Yamnaya
- I11840Russia Samara EBA Yamnaya
- I11990Russia Orenburg EBA Yamnaya
- I11999Ukraine Odesa EBA Yamnaya
- I12005Ukraine Odessa EBA Yamnaya
- I12233Ukraine Odesa EBA Yamnaya
- I12241Russia Orenburg EBA Yamnaya
- I12242Russia Orenburg EBA Yamnaya
- I12243Russia Orenburg EBA Yamnaya
- I12507Moldova EBA Yamnaya
- I12512Moldova EBA Yamnaya
- I12617Ukraine Odesa EBA Catacomb Yamnaya possible
- I12619Ukraine Odesa EBA Yamnaya