“More to the West”: critical comments on the new versions of the “Yamnaya expansion” hypothesis

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Published Dec 31, 2024
https://doi.org/10.5644/Godisnjak.CBI.ANUBiH.53-183
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Aleksey Romanchuk
Institute of Cultural Heritage

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The article considers recent versions of the proposed by geneticists hipothesis of “Yamnaya expansion”. The author demontstrates that the data of Y-chromosome analises, as well as the data of phisical anthropology obviously does not agree with the supposed model of “population replacement” of Europe (even partial) as a result of late migrations from the area of the Yamnaya culture, already in the Bronze Age. Thus, the author suggests that the area in which the formation of the autosomal “Yamnaya component” took place was significantly wider than the area of the Sredny Stog culture, and covered very vast areas of both Eastern Europe (both its steppe and forest parts), and Central and (partly) Western.

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Romanchuk, A. (2024). “More to the West”: critical comments on the new versions of the “Yamnaya expansion” hypothesis. Godišnjak Centra Za balkanološka Ispitivanja, (53), 5–27. https://doi.org/10.5644/Godisnjak.CBI.ANUBiH.53-183

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