Dnieper-Donets Culture R1a

[Kmakkmak]

Dnieper Donets Culture R1a came from Sredny-Stog and Khvalynsk Cultures?

Dnieper Donets Culture population was mixed with Proto-Indo-Europeans?

[Daos777]

Dnieper-Donets was just a steppe culture that had more local hunter gatherer admixture than the others. They were also physically the biggest and strongest. All these steppe cultures come from Proto-Indoeuropeans so I don’t know why you keep asking that.

[Kmakkmak]

Dnieper-Donets was just a steppe culture that had more local hunter gatherer admixture than the others. They were also physically the biggest and strongest. All these steppe cultures come from Proto-Indoeuropeans so I don’t know why you keep asking that.

The Dnieper-Donets culture is situated in the area which in accordance with the Kurgan hypothesis has been suggested as the Proto-Indo-European homeland. It has been suggested that the Dnieper-Donets people were Pre–Indo-European-speakers who were absorbed by Proto-Indo-Europeans expanding westwards from steppe-lands further east.[8]

The Dnieper-Donets people almost certainly spoke a different language than the people of the Cucuteni–Trypillia culture.[3]

The areas of the upper Dniester in which the Dnieper-Donets culture was situated have mostly Baltic river names. Due to this, and the close relationship between the Dnieper-Donets culture and contemporary cultures of northeast Europe, the Dnieper-Donets culture have been identified with the later Balts.[8]

Mallory includes this area within the limits of the Proto-Indo-Europeans. The precise role of this culture and its language to the derivation of the Pontic-Caspian cultures such as Sredny Stog and Yamnaya culture, is open to debate, though the display of recurrent traits points either to long-standing mutual contacts or underlying genetic relations.[17]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dnieper%E2%80%93Donets_culture