Did the Indo-Europeans Really Even Exist?

The complications start in what’s called the “Kurgan hypothesis”, which postulates that the gigantic geographic spread of the Indo-European languages can all be traced back to a single origin point, where Proto-Indo-European was first spoken. This origin is identified in the archaeological cultures famed for kurgan (burial mound) use, somewhere in eastern Ukraine or southern Russia, and specifically in the scarce material remains of the archaeological Yamnaya culture of that area, which flourished around 3300–2600 BC. The identification with the Yamnaya specifically and the area in general come from a <a href="https://www.science.org/content/article/thousands-horsemen-may-have-swept-bronze-age-europe-transforming-local-population#:~:text=The%20Yamnaya%20men%20could%20have,back%20home%20in%20the%20steppe." rel="noopener ugc nofollow" target="_blank">variety of factors</a>, including genetic analysis of human remains and material analysis of tool, weapon and art remains, and is a relatively well-accepted hypothesis. <a href="https://jwbarlament.medium.com/did-the-indo-europeans-really-even-exist-9338b9e729a9">Click Here</a>