Research report 2023 - Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology
New insights into the origin of the Indo-European languages
Authors
Heggarty, Paul; Anderson, Cormac; King, Benedict; Haak, Wolfgang; Krause, Johannes; Gray, Russell D.
Departments
Max-Planck-Institut für evolutionäre Anthropologie, Leipzig
Summary
An international team of linguists and geneticists, led by researchers from the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology in Leipzig, has achieved a significant breakthrough in understanding the origin of the Indo-European language family. Dated language family trees and ancient DNA evidence combine to suggest that the answer to the 200-year-old enigma of Indo-European origins lies in a hybrid of the farming and Steppe hypotheses.