A new study in the journal Science Advances turns to human skeletons to explore the origins of horseback riding, and cast doubts the Kurgan hypothesis
A 3,800-year-old extended family from the “Nepluyevsky” kurgan; 32 individuals from the burial site in the southern Ural region show patrilineality and patrilocality
Contribution of cultural heritage values to steppe conservation on kurgans, ancient burial mounds of Eurasia; the study is published in Conservation Biology
The world’s first horse riders: researchers discovered evidence by studying the remains of human skeletons found in burial mounds called kurgans