Proto-Indo-European homeland

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The Proto-Indo-European homeland was the prehistoric homeland of the Proto-Indo-European language (PIE), the region where the proto-language was spoken before it split into the dialects from which the earliest Indo-European languages later evolved with the Indo-European migrations. The Steppe theory, the Anatolian model, and the Near Eastern (or Armenian) model are the three main solutions for the Indo-European homeland, of which the Steppe theory is the most widely accepted proposal. The search for the homeland of the Indo-Europeans began during the late 18th century with the discovery of the Indo-European language family. The methods used to establish the homeland have been drawn from the disciplines of historical linguistics, archaeology, physical anthropology and, more recently, human population genetics. The Steppe theory puts the archaic, early, and late PIE homeland in the Pontic–Caspian steppe between 4000–3000 BCE. with Lazaridis and Anthony proposing that archaic PIE ('Indo-Anatolian...

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