Indo-European DNA: The Genetic Migration of Indo-Europeans…

Indo-European DNA: The Genetic Migration of Indo-Europeans…

Considering that nearly half the world’s population speaks a language that is part of the Indo-European language family, from Irish and Scottish Gaelic to Sanskrit in India, what do we know about the genetic legacy left by the massive waves of Indo-European migration?

Well we can see the genetic fingerprints of the Indo-Europeans right across Eurasia, and it may explain why there are so many origin stories in the likes of Scotland and Ireland that discuss cultures from the Steppe, an area north of the Black Sea and to the east. The origins of the Indo-Europeans seems to be a mixture of both Anatolia and the Pontic-Caspian steppe, with various cultures over the centuries and millennia spreading Indo-European traits outwards.

The presence of Steppe related ancestry in so many parts of Eurasia is quite astonishing, and is considered a strong marker of the legacy of these Indo-European migrations. 3 cultures in particular were important in this spread, and they are important to understand before documenting some of the genetic findings from recent research.

The Yamnaya culture, also known as the Pit Grave culture, was one, which existed from around 3300 – 2600 BC in the Pontic-Caspian steppe. The rapid spread of the Yamnaya culture across Eurasia has led many to argue that may have been quite a violent event, with the Yamnaya people potentially committing genocide against the native peoples they largely went on to replace, but that is a story for another time.

Second up is a connected culture known as the Corded Ware culture, a culture that existed from around 3000 BC – 2350 BC and occupied a massive area, from a contact zone with the Yamnaya culture to stretching right across a large part of central and western Europe and into parts of Scandinavia. Thirdly, there was the Bell Beaker culture, which existed from around c. 2800–1800 BC and occupied an area much further west, in Western Europe, Britian and Ireland.

Sources:

Indo-European languages Indo-European languages - Establishment, Spread, Diversity | Britannica


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Indo-European DNA - Ancestry - R1a - R1b

[celtichistorydecoded]

Thanks for watching. Please let me know your thoughts below...

[lugo_]

Greetings from Ireland. I have always marvelled how people across so much of Europe all look so similar. A solitary irishman can blend into the crowd everywhere from the Uk to Greece. From the pyrenees to Russia. The ancestors.

[AmmiV]

As a punjabi jatt our ancestry is between 33% to 40% stepp DNA

[zakariyashakir]

I am Kurdish and we are an Indo European nation

[IanHunter-xcpo]

The Bell Beaker Culture (BBC) is derived from the Corded Ware Culture (CWC), via CWC's most westerly offshoot, the Single Grave Culture (SGC).

However, CWC is not derived form Yamnaya, rather Yamnaya and CWC both derive from Sredny Stog II. They were brothers, rather than father and son, so to speak. Sredny Stog II is almost certainly the IE urheimat.

[mukhumor]

An ancient bone from a sheep that originated in the Pamir Mountains was found in the Thames. (Read it in a book years ago, forget the source.)

[Nom_AnorVSJedi]

So the Aryan Invasion Theory was true for Europe as it was for India?

[michaelwhite]

Very interesting video. My mother was Irish and had some distant Kurdish ancestry.

[colinjames]

It’s amazing what connections we’ve made through both recent DNA discoveries and cultural research. Basically what my father said to me about our ancient history through oral traditions rings true

[serviustullus]

Irish and British were speaking a European Proto-Celtic during the Bronze Age.

[PaulStewart-jrgm]

Strange to think that the majority of my ancestry (based upon my DNA), isn’t Indo-European, despite coming from Scotland.

[rohachaiin]

Can you make a video exploring the very coincidental linguistic traits of Insular Celtic and Afroasiatic languages?

[nukhetyavuz]

this is not indo europeans.what ur describing is the proto or scythian lands...and they were not indo european, the came from the regions u described...the caucasus, step, siberia, west, central and northern asia...even the xioung nu were among them, who mixed with turks, huns, hungarians, even slavs and russians...they have that dna...but ur right yamnaya took over their language, and from a uralic language, these began to assimiliate and speak indo european.

[tobyplumlee]

Interesting video! 1 found out my male haplogroup is R1b-L21>DF13>ZZ10. My father's side comes originally from Somerset England. I'm thinking this haplogroup is a pretty good indication that my male line is indigenous bell beaker "Celtic Briton" and not Germanic Anglo-Saxon. Though my surname is English I only get 32% ancestry from England and 38% Scotland, 11% Ireland, 5% Wales with the remainder of being Norway and Denmark. My mother is a J2 haplogroup Montgomery whose Scottish ancestor left a place called Rosemont Scotland if I remember correctly to settle in county Antrim Ireland. Descended from a younger son of a Sir Hugh Montgomery that had land in both Western Scotland and Northern Ireland. So after 9 generations in the American colonies and the United States my ancestry is still pretty much predominantly from people of the British Isles.

[williamcathcart]

Thank you for the lesson. Where did you pick up the tour bus ?

[joshuaperkins]

Another excellent video my friend, with good information and visual indications with in a short amount of time. There seems to be some good evidence that has persisted but in my opinion is getting lost or marginalized in these new studies, and that is the Corded Ware east migrations. Corded Ware being the origin of Indo Aryan settlers of Persia. North India, etc. there may of been an earlier migration or migrations into Armenia from Anatolia and or Yamnaya into the Balkans, into Greece and east. The Corded Ware evidence lyes in the Globular Amphora (Neolithic European) DNA.

Thanks for the video. Your doing great work:)

[Rasytojas]

I am Lithuanian and our dominant haplogroup is N1c finnic but somehow we speak the most archaic indo-european language which came with R1a haplogroup.
Also somehow Slavic languages sound like a specific dialect of Baltic.

[paddyo]

My dna recent going back 20 generations
80%irish/british, further back tracked
11% Spanish, 6%Hungary
3% Finish

[alexguest]

I wonder if the "Indo Europeans" are actually what has been remembered in mythology as the "Aryans"??? I know that in Iran, there is a myth that the ancient Iranians ("Aryans") migrated from around the area of the Steppe - hence why it's called Iran (from Aryan). This would tend to tie-up with what you say in the video. Fascinating to speculate.

[nukhetyavuz]

r haplogroup, r1a and r1b spread from siberia, towards the step, but they were not yamnaya, only a part before it mixed with prototurkic, uralic, scythian people...