@dna.uncovered on Instagram: "Most people think Yamnaya Indo-Europeans were just: Eastern Hunter-Gatherers + Caucasus Hunter-Gatherers. ❌ That’s an oversimplification. In reality, the populations that formed the Yamnaya horizon came from at least FOUR distinct groups — and each of those groups was already mixed. This carousel breaks down the 4 ancestral populations that fed into Yamnaya ethnogenesis 👇 ⸻ SLIDE 1 — Seroglazovskaya 🏹 One of the most genetically complex steppe groups

@dna.uncovered on Instagram: "Facial reconstruction of a Yamnaya war chief from the Pontic–Caspian steppe 🧬⚔️ The Yamnaya are often described as a single population — but that’s an oversimplification. This warrior did not descend from one source. He stood at the end of a long process of mixing along what geneticists call the Caucasus–Lower Volga Cline. 👇 Here’s what actually formed the Yamnaya people. 🧬 THE CAUCASUS–LOWER VOLGA CLINE Rather than a clean split between “steppe” and “Caucasus,”