A newly published genetic study conducted by a team of European scientists has conclusively confirmed that the ancient Greeks were descended from Indo-European tribes who originated on the Steppes of Russia and formed part of the “Yamnaya culture.”
The collaborative study, published in the journal bioRxiv, and authored by more than 80 geneticists from nearly 25 universities, titled “Ancient genomics support deep divergence between Eastern and Western Mediterranean Indo-European languages,” sequenced the genomes of 314 individuals dated to between 3200 and 100 BC.
The results showed that Indo-Europeans from the Steppes settled in Western and Eastern Europe in different stages and time frames, meaning that the “arrival of steppe ancestry in Spain, France, and Italy was mediated by Bell Beaker (BB) populations of Western Europe… In contrast, Armenian and Greek populations acquired steppe ancestry directly from Yamnaya groups of Eastern Europe.”
This ties in perfectly with the emergence of the Mycenaean Greek civilization around 1700 BC.