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Massive migration from the steppe was a source for Indo-European languages in Europe.
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Discussions revolve around strong support for the steppe migration theory, with multiple references to authoritative studies like Haak et al. (2015) and debates over genetic versus cultural interpretations, evident in tone choices like 'falácia' and critical comments on methodology, which reflect both trust and skepticism toward the findings.
Most discussions support the idea that historical migrations, especially from the steppe, significantly influenced European ancestry and languages.
The topic of ancient migrations and their linguistic impact sparks high academic and personal curiosity, reflected in detailed references and debates.
Postings show active participation, with some referencing specific genetic studies and others challenging interpretations, indicating thoughtful engagement.
The topic influences current understanding of European origins and language development, though the debates remain part of ongoing research rather than definitive consensus.
Abstract in brief
- Researchers analyzed ancient DNA from 69 Europeans dating back 8,000 to 3,000 years using advanced techniques that reduced sequencing time significantly, enabling the study of more individuals.
- They discovered that during the Neolithic period, diverse populations of early farmers emerged in Western Europe while Eastern Europe maintained a distinct hunter-gatherer population with ties to ancient Siberians.
- The study also highlighted a major migration event around 4,500 years ago, where the Corded Ware people from Germany mixed heavily with steppe herders from the east, contributing to modern European ancestry and supporting the theory of a steppe origin for some Indo-European languages.
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Most liked on X and Bluesky@GripperSteb Nature, 2021 Large-scale migration into Britain during the Middle to Late Bronze Agehttps://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-021-04287-4#article-info Nature, 2015 Haak W,etal.(2015) Massive migration from the steppe was a source for Indo-European-European languages in Europe.
@gwalkden ...in Europe.” Nature 522, no. 7555 (2015): 207–11. https://t.co/OTbipJUNUR, is rather fundamental. I hope that a fundamental book on this, to which I have contributed, will appear soon.
@gwalkden ...Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2010, is probably already a bit dated. Haak, Wolfgang, Iosif Lazaridis, Nick Patterson, Nadin Rohland, Swapan Mallick, Bastien Llamas, Guido Brandt et al. “Massive Migration from the Steppe Was a Source for Indo-European Languages...
@Bannedfrmtwitte "Northern Europeans have Yamnaya ancestry whilst Meds don’t." Wrong. All European groups have Yamnaya ancestry, but Southern groups have somewhat less than Northern ones. This was all pretty well established by ~2500 BC. https://t.co/Xk2uC9NMDV https://t.co/c9FBaRkhMe
مخطط الخلائط الوراثية من دراسة Haak et al. 2015 اللون البنفسجي يمثل المكون العربي / الشمال إفريقي اللون الأخضر يمثل المكون القوقازي / الإيراني Massive migration from the steppe was a source for Indo-European languages in Europe https://t.co/im3TiZGBOv https://t.co/k9U9Q2tGEK
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2️⃣8️⃣ 2. Gimbutas, M. (1991). *The Civilization of the Goddess: The World of Old Europe*. HarperCollins. ### Bronze Age Steppe Migration and Male Bias 3. Haak, W., et al. (2015). Massive migration from the steppe was a source for Indo-European languages in Europe. *Nature*, 522, 207–211.
@38point58square @jonatanpallesen Haak et al fig.3 it’s written https://t.co/hvMSJaaO44
@tuuy210210 @abelsoar1960 @RC4RD050 @rpdsousa Isso é uma falácia, uma falácia que já não cola, quem vem falar de "purezas" são sempre os que querem negar as identidades dos povos e as existencias das nações europeias. Os portugueses como o resto dos europeus descendem de 3 populações ancestrais: https://t.co/h5ueR4Q9wi
@Nymne Modern Scandinavians—including both Danes and Swedes—have a substantial proportion of their ancestry from these steppe migrants. https://t.co/OqtH28NJUf
@Mike_Braz90 @MorTony13 Isso não é verdade, os ibéricos como o resto dos europeus, são mais de 95% do adn de 3 populações ancestrais, os agricultores do neolitico, os yamnaya indo-europeus e os caçadores recolectores. Haak et al: https://t.co/h5ueR4Q9wi
@angloceltqueen @Imaginely2 @41below @RupertLowe10 Haak, W., Lazaridis, I., Patterson, N., Rohland, N., Mallick, S., Llamas, B.,... & Reich, D. (2015). Massive migration from the steppe was a source for Indo-European languages in Europe. Nature, 522, 207–211. https://t.co/TAfDijSLYO
@CazadorPe @TintoLusitanum Essa questão é uma falácia, nenhum povo desceden de uma só população, o que acontece na Europa é que os europeus descendem do mesmo combo de populações europeias ou macro-caucasoides https://t.co/h5ueR4Q9wi
@Ricardo28050273 @PedroCo27976241 @Rui_Cavaleiro_ Isso ocorreu onde? na sua imaginação? Portugal é altamente homogeneo, os portugueses e espanhois são essencialmente o mesmo combo que o resto da Europa: - Caçadores Recolectores, Proto-indo-europeus da idade do bronze e os Agricultores do Neolítico https://t.co/2G0IOPsQy1
Haak et al., Nature, 2015 ➤ "Massive migration from the steppe was a source for Indo-European languages in Europe" ➤ doi.org/10.1038/natu... Behar et al., Nature Communications, 2010 ➤ "The genome-wide structure of the Jewish people" ➤ doi.org/10.1038/ncom...
@HLundb14 Källor: Haak et al. (2015) https://t.co/3Jcn5NWB8O Lazaridis et al. (2014) https://t.co/FQSkX9Uscg
RT @DecodingTrolls: @GripperSteb Nature, 2021 Large-scale migration into Britain during the Middle to Late Bronze Agehttps://www.nature.com…
@slandermepls @owlcosmas @ST0NEHENGE The first image is the 2015 study by Haak et al., titled "Massive migration from the steppe was a source for Indo-European languages in Europe," published in Nature. Nature is a highly prestigious journal and one of the leading publications for peer-reviewed genetics research.
@FKNMXAGAINMFK @AfonsoJFG Para quê ainda mais, já te mostrei acima, que existe um cluster genético onde caiem todos os portugueses no meio da Europa, e acabaste de o fazer também, não é que os conseguisses perceber, pelo menos pela conversa, mas cá fica: https://t.co/E45LO8EhSH
@MalachaymRabaym @La____griffe "Massive migration from the steppe was a source for Indo-European languages in Europe" https://t.co/eKNKHYwusu https://t.co/M3Cc4bahkW
Ten years since the revolutionary Haak et al. 2015, Massive migration from the steppe was a source for Indo-European languages in Europe. Amazing ten years
Massive migration from the steppe was a source for Indo-European languages in Europe: https://t.co/kZiuy3oqer The Yana RHS Site: Humans in the Arctic before the Last Glacial Maximum: https://t.co/1Wmwl9Vf1r Ancient DNA and Neanderthals: https://t.co/IuClkp4tea
@picomaga1 @AfonsoJFG E colocares 1 link onde está explicito que se trata de haplotipos a imagem e mesmo assim não conseguires perceber a diferença entre linhagens uniparentais (nem é 0,1% do adn humano) e adn autosomal (a totalidade do adn - admixture recombinatório) diz tudo. https://t.co/Ugr6Utp3GM
@NemThePope @karioka_pistola @Bez9611 @racismocontrapt Já te expliquei, e nem com desenhos conseguiste entender: https://t.co/UCMhpWqt91
@WinningFactory @Nzh2Nzh2590781 @TurkishArc Sources: Feldman, M., et al. (2022). Ancient DNA sheds light on population dynamics in the Aegean Bronze Age. Science Advances. Haak, W., et al. (2015). Massive migration from the steppe was a source for Indo-European languages in Europe. Nature
@OpiniaoCensurad @leastracist_eur @nunomgabriel_ Os portugueses tal como o resto dos europeus descendem de 3 populações ancestrais, tal como o resto da Europa: https://t.co/80DE450RRC os Barcin/agricultores do neolitico, os Caçadores Recolectores/whg e os Yamanya.
@Bannedfrmtwitte "Northern Europeans have Yamnaya ancestry whilst Meds don’t." Wrong. All European groups have Yamnaya ancestry, but Southern groups have somewhat less than Northern ones. This was all pretty well established by ~2500 BC. https://t.co/Xk2uC9NMDV https://t.co/c9FBaRkhMe
@marienicolaisen @karijo007 @YorHa_K1 @robin_tveit Studien er dessverre bak en betalingsmur. Den første linken er selve studien, men du kan se den tilhørende grafen under "figures" på link nummer 2 https://t.co/BdUskihuUQ https://t.co/d8E5HUIqnz
@JohnDooooooooo @prata_roque Como estás a ver que nada sabes do assunto tens que vir com ad-hominem, os seus estudos têm quase 20 anos já desmontados pela ciência moderna, são sobre linhagens uniparentais que não é sequer 1% do adn de uma população. Não tenho que inventar: https://t.co/E45LO8DK39
@Nun_tilde_ez_M @zloubitch @PerfettiGuilla1 @orsalieu @FrDesouche https://t.co/Mnnk5idEzj
@dreddmustdie @Iotti999 ?! Literalmente é de um artigo da nature https://t.co/NnOfqM6dyt and https://t.co/gHiYTds3Xd a figura vem deste artigo porém é pago mas a fonte em si possui mais de mil citações além da tal também estar publicada na nature.
@Devasakha Second, the migration of steppe people to the rest of Europe may have been, by and large, peaceful with a few events of violence. The image is from the paper: Haak et al. Massive migration from the steppe was a source for Indo-European languages in Europe. Nature (2015) . + https://t.co/EyuyFKomku
@messagetoworld1 @AugustoCotraro Even North and Western Europeans are closer to those Anatolian Farmers https://t.co/ZxSbOoR8ny https://t.co/ZDVRXxndDQ (Data S3) https://t.co/iZZMNTblzv https://t.co/DBzjpGhR7K https://t.co/9RxzipGhrU
Populations that share most genetic drift with Western Hunter Gatherers, Neolithic Europeans and Late Neolithic / Bronze Age Europeans https://t.co/iZZMNTblzv https://t.co/EeCYvjFRtl https://t.co/GhoMpmtOIq
RT @DecodingTrolls: @amaragraps A US-Lithuanian's "Steppe Hypothesis" is now proven through comparative mythology, linguistics, archeology…
RT @DecodingTrolls: @amaragraps A US-Lithuanian's "Steppe Hypothesis" is now proven through comparative mythology, linguistics, archeology…
@VinstonLiBu @lawen4cer Keine Ahnung, was Zucht konzeptionell ändern soll. Eine natürliche Vermischung zweier Unterarten in der Natur hätte als Beispiel auch funktioniert. Die Grafik war von "Massive migration from the steppe was a source for Indo-European languages in Europe" (Haak et al., 2015).
RT @DecodingTrolls: @GripperSteb Nature, 2021 Large-scale migration into Britain during the Middle to Late Bronze Agehttps://www.nature.com…
@EspeschitRegina @lucyfedia @UmlandAndreas Nature, 2021 Large-scale migration into Britain during the Middle to Late Bronze Agehttps://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-021-04287-4#article-info Nature, 2015 Haak W,etal.(2015) Massive migration from the steppe was a source for Indo-European-European languages in Europe. https://t.co/1iKtb7xKZy https://t.co/nfhR8oIm5v
@HavelNavzdy @Tom_Rowsell @BlkoJa try this https://t.co/CQvdmZxlbO https://t.co/fFjoL1dceF
RT @DecodingTrolls: @GripperSteb Nature, 2021 Large-scale migration into Britain during the Middle to Late Bronze Agehttps://www.nature.com…
@yhettyqueen1_ @instablog9ja Here's a typical example of present-day population-genetics research: https://t.co/lgjEntMf4r -- no mention of traditional race categories, because one finds a much more detailed story, one with plenty of population mixing.
RT @DecodingTrolls: @GripperSteb Nature, 2021 Large-scale migration into Britain during the Middle to Late Bronze Agehttps://www.nature.com…
@GripperSteb Nature, 2021 Large-scale migration into Britain during the Middle to Late Bronze Agehttps://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-021-04287-4#article-info Nature, 2015 Haak W,etal.(2015) Massive migration from the steppe was a source for Indo-European-European languages in Europe.
@FFoucart @NotaBeneMovies @GIMS Massive migration from the steppe was a source for Indo-European languages in Europe https://t.co/st1pWiG48U https://t.co/s3DaWzMlTi
@vpcvernier @RageCultureMag Massive migration from the steppe was a source for Indo-European languages in Europe https://t.co/st1pWiG48U https://t.co/MVA4XoXVCQ
RT @PBerzy: @TxominHu @LegendesCarto @Linguisticae Figure 1:Massive migration from the steppe was a source for Indo-European languages in E…
@TxominHu @LegendesCarto @Linguisticae Figure 1:Massive migration from the steppe was a source for Indo-European languages in Europe Figure 2: Genetic population structure across Brittany and the downstream Loire basin provides new insights on the demographic history of Western Europe
Massive migration from the steppe was a source for Indo-European languages in Europe | Nature https://t.co/TqBcwxzkdD
Allentoft, et al. Population genomics of Bronze Age Eurasia Gaunitz et al. 2018. Ancient genomes revisit the ancestry of domestic and Przewalski’s horses. Haak,et al. Massive migration from the steppe was a source for Indo-European languages in Europe.
@YetAnotherGeekG @TrentTelenko https://t.co/4d3LIGwjan
@amaragraps A US-Lithuanian's "Steppe Hypothesis" is now proven through comparative mythology, linguistics, archeology & DNA sequencing: Marija Gimbetas. ALL indo-european languages were born 3000BCE-1000BCE in eastern Ukraine: (https://t.co/Sne8t3tDSc & https://t.co/cBj8puCEZK https://t.co/WyPTw6YXee
@Pulakeshi_II @Earlhastings1 @_agnel @Karnatanjaneya Source :- https://t.co/oRYYkKF6Ag ಇದು ವಿಕ್ಕಿpedia ಅನ್ಬೇಡ.. Idu gov website.
Massive migration from the steppe was a source for Indo-European languages in Europe https://t.co/Ou3aOEnBJI
@gwalkden ...in Europe.” Nature 522, no. 7555 (2015): 207–11. https://t.co/OTbipJUNUR, is rather fundamental. I hope that a fundamental book on this, to which I have contributed, will appear soon.
@gwalkden ...Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2010, is probably already a bit dated. Haak, Wolfgang, Iosif Lazaridis, Nick Patterson, Nadin Rohland, Swapan Mallick, Bastien Llamas, Guido Brandt et al. “Massive Migration from the Steppe Was a Source for Indo-European Languages...
Nature Volume 522, 2015 Massive migration from the steppe was a source for Indo-European languages in Europe >https://t.co/2tPENCkjKQ https://t.co/lYhVxZchs3
RT @Wulnikay: "Massive migration from the steppe was a source for Indo-european languages in Europe"
RT @Wulnikay: "Massive migration from the steppe was a source for Indo-european languages in Europe" https://t.co/dCWGVncn8h
RT @Wulnikay: "Massive migration from the steppe was a source for Indo-european languages in Europe" https://t.co/dCWGVncn8h
"Massive migration from the steppe was a source for Indo-european languages in Europe" https://t.co/dCWGVncn8h
@Kirchenburg @goth_pilled @BaerenFelix Ansonsten halt die relevanten Papers zum Thema (allerdings oft mit Zugangsbeschränkung): Allentoft et al. 2015: Population genomics of Bronze Age Eurasia Haak et al 2015: Massive migration from the steppe was a source for Indo-European languages in Europe
@rakeshojjha @BesuraTaansane @LinahAlsaafin @McDonalds KEY REF: 1) Genetic affinities among the lower castes and tribal groups of India: inference from Y chromosome and mitochondrial DNA. BMC Genet. 2006 7:42. 2. Massive migration from the steppe was a source for Indo-European languages in Europe. Nature volume 522,:207–211 2015
@rakeshojjha @BesuraTaansane @LinahAlsaafin @McDonalds KEY REF: 1) Genetic affinities among the lower castes and tribal groups of India: inference from Y chromosome and mitochondrial DNA. BMC Genet. 2006 7:42. 2. Massive migration from the steppe was a source for Indo-European languages in Europe. Nature volume 522,:207–211 2015
مخطط الخلائط الوراثية من دراسة Haak et al. 2015 اللون البنفسجي يمثل المكون العربي / الشمال إفريقي اللون الأخضر يمثل المكون القوقازي / الإيراني Massive migration from the steppe was a source for Indo-European languages in Europe https://t.co/im3TiZGBOv https://t.co/k9U9Q2tGEK
Massive migration from the steppe was a source for Indo-European languages in Europe https://t.co/K04bODCX3K
well it’s out in nature now "Massive migration from the steppe was a source for Indo-European languages in Europe" http://go.nature.com/kuJmLc
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