Where lies the origin of the Indo-European language family? Ron Pinhasi and his team in the Department of Evolutionary Anthropology at the University of Vienna contribute a new piece to this puzzle in collaboration with David Reich's ancient DNA laboratory at Harvard University.
  • Lvxferre [he/him]English
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    I cross-posted this in the Linguistics comm (!linguistics@mander.xyz), with a few additional comments. Might as well share them here:

    There’s an earlier study from the Max Plank Society that estimates the family to be 8k years old (this one gives makes it 6kyo). That study was using a glottochronology technique; it gives you a decent guess about the age of a family/branch, but this one gives you actual data instead.

    And yet both kind of mix the Caucasian and Steppes hypotheses - with Early PIE in the Caucasus, Late PIE in the Pontic-Caspian Steppe.

      • Lvxferre [he/him]English
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        Discloser: I’m one of the mods there :)

        Feel welcome to post everything language there!

        • ZeroCool@slrpnk.netOPEnglish
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          Well, I’m a big fan of the sciences so I spend a lot of time reading mander.xyz communities, subbed, I’ll contribute whenever I come across something relevant.