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    The PonticCaspian Steppe is a steppe extending across Eastern Europe to Central Asia, formed by the Caspian and Pontic steppes. It stretches from the...
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    northeast of the Caspian Sea, forming the Ural-Caspian Narrowing, that joins the Pontic-Caspian Steppe in Europe with the Kazakh Steppe in Central Asia...
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    model, by the early 3rd millennium BC had expanded throughout the PonticCaspian steppe and into Eastern Europe. Recent genetics studies of late 2000s,...
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    region between the Southern Bug, Dniester, and Ural rivers (the PonticCaspian steppe), dating to 3300–2600 BCE. It was discovered by Vasily Gorodtsov...
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  • also known as Pontic Scythia, was a kingdom created by the Scythians during the 6th to 3rd centuries BC in the PonticCaspian steppe. The names Scythia...
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    400–3,500 BC). Mainstream scholars place them in the PonticCaspian steppe across Eurasia (this steppe extends from northeastern Bulgaria and southeastern...
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    Proto-Indo-European homeland is the steppe hypothesis, which puts the archaic, early, and late PIE homeland in the PonticCaspian steppe around 4000 BCE. The leading...
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    PonticCaspian steppe and west of the Emin Valley steppe, with which it forms the central and western part of the Eurasian steppe. The Kazakh Steppe is...
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    original homeland of the Proto-Indo-Europeans may have been in the PonticCaspian steppe of eastern Europe. The linguistic reconstruction of PIE has provided...
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    the eastern Pontic-Caspian steppe around 5,000 BC, while admixture with EEFs happened in the southern parts of the Pontic-Caspian steppe sometime later...
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    PonticCaspian steppe area is often also encompassed under the notion of a Ciscaucasus region, thus the northern boundary of the Forecaucasus steppe or...
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    American ancestry as the f4-statistics (Steppe_Maykop, Fitted Steppe_Maykop; Outgroup1, Outgroup2) show that the Steppe Maykop individuals share more alleles...
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  • southern shores The PonticCaspian steppe, steppelands stretching from north of the Black Sea as far east as the Caspian Sea The Pontic Mountains, a range...
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    were Turkic semi-nomadic warrior tribes that flourished in the PonticCaspian steppe and the Volga region during the 5th-7th century. They became known...
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    the origins and spread of the Indo-European languages from the PonticCaspian steppe throughout Western Europe, Central Asia, and South Asia. He shows...
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    ancient Eastern Iranic equestrian nomadic people originating in the PonticCaspian steppe, part of whom subsequently migrated into West Asia. Although the...
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    to this hypothesis was spoken within the Yamnaya horizon on the PonticCaspian steppe around 3000 BCE. Albanian, Greek, and other Paleo-Balkan languages...
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    migrated during the 9th to 8th centuries BC from Central Asia to the Pontic Steppe in modern-day Ukraine and Southern Russia, where they remained established...
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    supports the Kurgan hypothesis, which posits the homeland to be the PonticCaspian steppe in what is now Ukraine and southern Russia, associated with the...
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    Yamnaya as a consequence of a supposed "massive migration" from the Pontic-Caspian steppe, and the people of both cultures may be directly descended from...
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    Late Bronze Age 1900–1200 BC culture in the eastern part of the PonticCaspian steppe. It is a successor of the Yamna culture, the Catacomb culture and...
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    Agathyrsi in the Pontic Steppe, as well as the Cimmerians in the Caspian Steppe, and possibly the Sigynnae in the Pannonian Steppe. The archaeological...
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    Horde was a confederation founded by the Nogais that occupied the PonticCaspian steppe from about 1500 until they were pushed west by the Kalmyks and south...
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    migrated westwards and becoming dominant among the Sarmatians on the PonticCaspian steppe, the Alans are mentioned by Roman sources in the 1st century CE...
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    predominantly East Slavic Orthodox Christian people originating in the PonticCaspian steppe of eastern Ukraine and southern Russia. Historically, they were...
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    confederation with the Cumans. There were groups of Kipchaks in the PonticCaspian steppe, China, Syr Darya and Siberia. Cumania was conquered by the Mongol...
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    European forest steppe forms a transition between the Central European and Sarmatic mixed forests to the north and the PonticCaspian steppe to the south...
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  • "tribes") were Turkic nomadic equestrians who flourished in the PonticCaspian steppe and the Volga region between 5th and 7th century, and spoke the...
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    CHG and Eastern Hunter-Gatherers in the PonticCaspian steppe resulted in the formation of the Western Steppe Herders (WSHs). The WSHs formed the Yamnaya...
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    millennium BC Eneolithic archaeological culture of the PonticCaspian steppe and East European forest steppe. It developed from preceding local Neolithic cultures...
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