Proto: How One Ancient Language Went Global

At the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology in Leipzig, a global powerhouse of palaeogenetic research to rival Reich’s at Harvard, psychologist Russell Gray was putting the finishing touches to his own Science paper. With the evidence furnished by campsites and burials, the archaeologists began to assemble a more complete picture of Yamnaya life. Global predictors of language endangerment and the future of linguistic diversity. In: Trade and Civilisation: Economic Networks and Cultural Ties, From Prehistory to the Early Modern Era.