R1a(1) ancestral homelands
My FTDNA website explians my R1a & R1a1 as originating north of the Black and Caspians Seas. The Kurgan Culture is given; both the earliest speakers of Indo-European and domesticators of the horse, apparently. FTDNA gives the same explanation for both R1a & R1a1. I don't know what it says about R1b.
The horse may have been domesticated in more than one place, in my opinion. It may have come along naturally at a certain point in the evolution of the herding cultures scattered over Eurasia.
My FTDNA website explians my R1a & R1a1 as originating north of the Black and Caspians Seas. The Kurgan Culture is given; both the earliest speakers of Indo-European and domesticators of the horse, apparently. FTDNA gives the same explanation for both R1a & R1a1. I don't know what it says about R1b.
The horse may have been domesticated in more than one place, in my opinion. It may have come along naturally at a certain point in the evolution of the herding cultures scattered over Eurasia.
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