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Indo-European Explorer: A 6,000-Year Journey

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You speak the language of horse riders who lived north of the Black Sea 6,000 years ago. Discover how.

The westward expansion of CLV (Caucasus-Lower Volga) cline populations from the Lower Volga and Dagestan region across the North Caucasus piedmont to the Dnieper-Don steppe. This movement followed the open steppe corridor north of the Greater Caucasus mountains, avoiding the mountainous terrain by staying on the flat grasslands. This expansion brought CLV ancestry to the Dnieper region, contributing to cultures like Serednii Stih and ultimately feeding into the Yamnaya gene pool. The route follows the natural east-west steppe corridor that has been a major migration pathway throughout Eurasian

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