In 2020, David Anthony offered a new hypothesis, with the aim of
resolving the questions surrounding the apparent absence of
haplogroup R1a in Yamnaya. He speculates that haplogroup R1a must
have been present in the Yamnaya, but that it was initially extremely
rare, and that the Corded Ware culture are the descendants of this
wayward population that migrated north from the Pontic steppe and
greatly expanded in size and influence, later returning to dominate the
Pontic-Caspian steppe.[62]
Anatolian hypothesis
Main article: Anatolian hypothesis
See also: Indo-Hittite
Map showing the Neolithic expansion from
the 7th to 5th millennia BCE.
Theory
The main competitor to the Kurgan hypothesis is the Anatolian
hypothesis advanced by Colin Renfrew in 1987. It couples the spread of
the Indo-European languages to the hard fact of the Neolithic spread of
farming from the Near East, stating that the Indo-European languages
began to spread peacefully into Europe from Asia Minor from around
7,000 BCE with the Neolithic advance of farming ( wave of advance ). The
expansion of agriculture from the Middle East would have diffused
three language families: Indo-European toward