Methodology deep-dives, population spotlights, and engineering notes from the Ancestrify team — qpAdm modelling, ancient DNA panels, and how genetic ancestry analysis really works.
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Ukraine holds the Yamnaya homeland, the Trypillia mega-sites and the likeliest cradle of the Slavic expansion. What ancient DNA shows about Ukrainian ancestry, and how to read a Ukrainian genome.
Who the Western Steppe Herders were, how steppe ancestry spread across Europe and Asia after 3000 BC, what a 'steppe percentage' actually measures, and how to estimate yours with qpAdm or Global25 from a raw DNA file.
A 2023 Science study analyzed 161 languages, dated the Indo-European root to about 8,120 years ago, and proposed a debated hybrid origin.