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⊕OldEuropeanCulture Some exploration of Europe before the Indo-Europeans.

⊕Timeline of Migrations Refer to Y DNA guide in Eupedia.

⊕Ancient DNA Map with links to relevant papers

⊕Johannes Krause: Population History of Europe presentation on the peopling of Europe.

⊕J.P. Mallory lecture: Indo-European Dispersals and the Eurasian Steppe A succinct presentation on the Kurgan Hypothesis .

⊕The First Horse Warriors a documentary on the pivotal bronze age development

⊕Encyclopedia Of Indo-European Culture 1997 edition by J. P. Mallory, Douglas Q. Adams

⊕Ancient DNA Suggests Steppe Migrations Spread Indo-European Languages Harvard researcher David Reich's seminal paper on the spread of Proto-Indo-European ancestry in Eurasia. The presentation

⊕Collection of Archaeogenetics papers

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