Today we learnt about the founding of Old Muscovy north of Ukraine and east of the Baltics, in the form of the Fatyanovo[–Balanovo] culture. h/t hbdchick.
Fatyanovo was a farm culture like the Cucuteni Balkans, but they were different people. The old Balkan farmers were like Anatolians and Syrians. Fatyanovo were "corded ware" - the Battle Axe culture. So, already we knew they were IndoEuropean in language. The genetics show this dramatically: before Fatyanovo, the people there had the hunter-gatherer genetic and now they were Yamnaya.
Aryan, even: the males are R1a-M417 more exactly R1a2-Z93. This is now a North India marker.
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