Category: Proto

How migrants shape language

May 31, 2025

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lauraspinney

in Archaeology, Books, Environment, Evolution, Genetics, History, Journalism, Language, Literature, Proto, Technology

ABOUT 5,000 years ago, a group of herders living in the grasslands north of the Black Sea headed west, taking their animals with them. They got as far as the Carpathian Basin — the western extremity of the vast Eurasian steppe centered on modern Hungary — but their descendants pushed farther, and within 1,000 years…