Proto Indo European Races
The Proto-Indo-Europeans are considered to be the speakers of a language ancestral to all living and
dead Indo-European languages. If they – and, for that matter, the language that they spoke – existed in
the first place remains controversial, as the vast majority of our knowledge about this prehistoric people
is reconstructed by using the linguistic comparative method, substituted by archaeological finds and
archaeogenetic studies.
Facial Reconstruction of a Proto-Indo-European.
The Indo-European Homeland
The Urheimat (a German term used in historical linguistics, describing the place of origin of a language)
of this mysterious people has been located in various different places in the past, yet the generally most
widely accepted theory today is Marija Gimbutas Kurgan Hypothesis. According to this hypothesis, the
Proto-Indo-Europeans originated in the Pontic-Caspian Steppes in modern-day Russia and spread
throughout Eurasia in different migration events over several millennia.