New Method Puts Elusive Indo- European Homeland in Anatolia

摘要

Among all the world's language families, Indo-European is by far the most global. Today its more than 400 languages are spoken by some 3 billion people on every inhabited continent. But who were the first Indo-European speakers, and where did they come from? Researchers have argued fiercely over two major competing candidates: Neolithic farmers who carried their agricultural know-how with them as they pushed out from Anatolia, chiefly in modern Turkey; or Bronze Age horse masters from the Eurasian steppes, who spread into Asia and Europe with advances such as the wheel.