Facial reconstruction of a Yamnaya war chief from the Pontic–Caspian steppe 🧬⚔️ The Yamnaya are often described as a single population — but that’s an oversimplification. This warrior did not descend from one source. He stood at the end of a long process of mixing along what geneticists call the Caucasus–Lower Volga Cline. 👇 Here’s what actually formed the Yamnaya people. 🧬 THE CAUCASUS–LOWER VOLGA CLINE Rather than a clean split between “steppe” and “Caucasus,” Yamnaya ancestry formed throug