Baltic hunter-gatherers began farming without influence of migration, ancient DNA suggests

(Trinity College Dublin) Ancient DNA analyses show that -- unlike elsewhere in Europe -- farmers from the Near East did not overtake hunter-gatherer populations in the Baltic. This research suggests the Balto-Slavic branch of the Indo-European language family originated in the Steppe grasslands of the East.

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