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Supported by those who can't live with the fact that Yamnaya was just a late PIEan culture full of West Asian DNA and Indo-Europeanized by people from the south. And that proto-Anatolian (ancestral to the Hittites) was older than Yamnaya.
It is a pathetic, ridiculous and laughable way of thinking. Why?
Sredny Stog culture was not a Kurgan culture. IEans in the steppes were associated with the kurgans. Also, there is clearly a huge migration detected from Yamnaya into Europe.
Sredny Stog culture was full of EEF or ANF. If Sredny Stog was Indo-European then Colin Renfrew was right and Europe was Indo-Europeanised by the Anatolian Farmers. Sure, the Anatolian Farmers from West Asia heavily changed the DNA in Europe. But I think we have enough evidence that LATE proto-Indo-European kurgan culture Yamnaya came later and had also a major genetic influence on Europe!
So, my point is that if Sredny Stog was Indo-European, which I'm sure it was absolutely not the case, then it was Indo-Europeanised by the Anatolian Farmers!
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