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    The Kurgan hypothesis (also known as the Kurgan theory, Kurgan model, or steppe theory) is the most widely accepted proposal to identify the Proto-Indo-European...
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    Altay Mountains.[citation needed] The Kurgan hypothesis is that Proto-Indo-Europeans were the bearers of the Kurgan culture of the Black Sea and the Caucasus...
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    had emerged among Indo-Europeanists in favour of the "Kurgan hypothesis" (named after the kurgans, burial mounds, of the Eurasian steppes) placing the...
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  • academic collaboration between Western and non-Western scholars. The Kurgan hypothesis, which is the most widely held theory as of 2017, depends upon linguistic...
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    the Neolithic and Bronze Age cultures of "Old Europe" and for her Kurgan hypothesis, which located the Proto-Indo-European homeland in the Pontic Steppe...
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  • competitor to the Kurgan hypothesis, or steppe theory, which enjoys more academic favor.[citation needed] The Anatolian hypothesis suggests that the speakers...
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  • estimates vary by more than a thousand years. According to the prevailing Kurgan hypothesis, the original homeland of the Proto-Indo-Europeans may have been in...
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    Haplogroup R1b1 (Y-DNA) Kurgan hypothesis Late Glacial Maximum Steppe Route Tarim mummies Temperate grasslands, savannas, and shrublands Kurgan stelae "Mystery...
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    involved in this movement. According to the widely held Kurgan hypothesis, or renewed Steppe hypothesis, the oldest Indo-European migration split from the...
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    of many competing hypotheses; the academic consensus supports the Kurgan hypothesis, which posits the homeland to be the Pontic–Caspian steppe in what...
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