Yamnaya

Yamnaya

English

Alternative forms

• Yamna

Proper noun

Yamnaya

1. A late Copper Age to early Bronze Age archaeological culture of the region between the Southern Bug, Dniester, and Ural rivers (the Pontic steppe), dating to 3300–2600 BC.
   • 2015, Nature, Allentoft et al., Population genomics of Bronze Age Eurasia:

     Although European Late Neolithic and Bronze Age cultures such as Corded Ware, Bell Beakers, Unetice, and the Scandinavian cultures are genetically very similar to each other (Fig. 2), they still display a cline of genetic affinity with Yamnaya, with highest levels in Corded Ware, lowest in Hungary, and central European Bell Beakers being intermediate (Fig. 2b and Extended Data Table 1).

Noun

Yamnaya pl (plural only)

1. The people of the Yamnaya culture.
   • 2015, Nature 522 (7555), Haak, W. et al, Massive migration from the steppe was a source for Indo-European languages in Europe:

     This pattern is also seen in ADMIXTURE analysis (Fig. 2b, SI6 ), which implies that the Yamnaya have ancestry from populations related to the Caucasus and South Asia that is largely absent in 38 Early or Middle Neolithic farmer s but present in all 25 Late Neolithic or Bronze Age individuals .

Adjective

Yamnaya (comparative more Yamnaya, superlative most Yamnaya)

1. Of or relating to this people or culture.