Indo-European cereal terminology suggests a Northwest Pontic homeland for the core Indo-European languages. by Guus Kroonen, Anthony Jakob, Axel I Palmér, Paulus van Sluis, Andrew Wigman

“…It follows that the early, eastern Yamnaya of the Don-Volga steppe, with its lack of evidence for agricultural practices, does not offer a perfect archaeological proxy for the core Indo-European language community and that this stage of the language family more likely reflects a mixed subsistence as proposed for western Yamnaya groups around or to the west of the Dnieper River.…”
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