A History of the Southern Arc through the Sequence of 777 Ancient Human Genomes

Every known Indo-European language may be traced back to a common source that existed roughly 6,000 years ago

The Southern Arc encompasses southern Europe and Western Asia. Specifically, it is the area that includes the Anatolian Peninsula, the Pontic Steppe, and the Caucasus and is bordered by the Black Sea. It has been home to human civilization for thousands of years and is regarded as the “Cradle of Western Civilization." We are aware of the human populatio…