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If you happen to live in the Pontic Steppe for most of your life yet your e.g.

The archaeology of Crimea is pretty interesting; abandoned Soviet submarine bases, Genoese castles, Pontic and Byzantine ruins.

Nor was the blood tax much of eastern Europe had to pay the Ottomans [1], nor the Pontic genocide [2].

I don't think that would be a Scythian area, that's more Pontic steppe, west and north from there.

For instance, European populations almost exclusively come from R1a and R1b Y-chromosome haplogroups that probably originated with the Proto-Indo-Europeans of the Pontic Steppe.

It's not Germany, it's Pontic Caspian steppes, approximately in modern day Ukraine if I recall correctly.

And this article doesn't even question that horses were domesticated in the Black Sea and Pontic Steppe, just that it happened later than Anthony postulated.

I don't know why Indian nationalists take a root at pontic Caspian steppes as an attack against antiquity of our culture.

Will they also be celebrating Out of Pontic Steppe?

Indo Europeans from pontic steppe and farmers from Anatolia.

The great plains from Germany to the Urals and the Pontic Steppe have both been crossed one way or the others by many population groups among the millenia.

Only a quite small number of the Greek pantheon have Indo-European forebears and were brought to Greece with the expansion of the Indo-European languages from the Pontic Steppes.

Also nobody other than Nazis calls the Aryans "European"; The origin of the Indo-European language family tree is from the Pontic-Caspian steppe region; what is today southeastern Ukraine and southern Russia, roughly from the Dniepro to the Volga.

In many cases, because both overlap with geographical features: the Carpathians in Romania, the Pontic-Caspian steppe in Ukraine, the green mountainous Portugal north of the Tagus vs the flat "montado" landscape to the south.

Also, you're off by a few millenia: Indo-Europeans didn't emerge from the Pontic-Caspian steppe until the 4th millenium BCE.

And it wouldn't also surprise me to find back and forth flow for a period of time from Anatolia to/from the Pontic-Caspian Steppe.

Originally in use on the Pontic–Caspian steppe, kurgans spread into much of Central Asia and Eastern, Southeast, Western, and Northern Europe during the third millennium BC.