Pages:  15-34 | DOI: https://doi.org/10.55086/sp2521534

The article considers recent versions of the proposed by geneticists hypothesis of “Yamnaya expansion” in Europe. The author demonstrates that the data of Y-chromosome analyses, as well as the data of physical 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.

Keywords: genetics, physical anthropology, archeology, Y-chromosome haplogroups, Yamnaya culture

Information about author:

Aleksey Romanchuk (Kishinev, Moldova). PhD in Theory and history of culture. Institute of Cultural Heritage of Academy of Sciences of Moldova. Stefan cel Mare Bd., 1, Kishinev, MD-2001, Moldova
E-mail: [email protected], [email protected]
ORCID: 0000-0002-2021-7958
Scopus Author ID: 57200424911