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DescriptionIndo-European migrations.gif	English: Animated map of Indo-European migrations. Sources: J.P. Mallory (1999) "In Search of the Indo-Europeans" D. Anthony (2007) "The Horse, The Wheel and Language" Allentoft et al. (2015) "Population genomics of bronze Age Eurasia", Nature, 11 june 2015, vol. 522 Haak et al. (2015) "Massive migration from the steppe was a source for Indo-European languages in Europe", Nature, 522: 207–211 The animated map gives an overall impression; in the details, many things are not exactly right. The first migration into the Danube Valley, for example, did not proceed from the Yamna culture, which started almost a millennium later. But altogether, the idea is to give a general impression of the migrations. I hope a team of professionals (Reich, Anthony, have you got some students available?) will pick up the idea of using a GIF to communicate an overview of the IE-migrations, and create a really good GIF of it. العربية: خريطة متحركة للهجرات الهندو-أوروبية.
Date	12 December 2016
Source	Own work
Author	Joshua Jonathan
Other versions	Arabic

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	Date/Time	Dimensions	User	Comment
current	20:02, 16 December 2016	1,200 × 598 (2.28 MB)	Joshua Jonathan	Changed map 6 again, removing the Globular Amphora culture, emphasizing Yamna-Germany expansion in line with Haak 2015.
	16:22, 16 December 2016	1,200 × 598 (2.28 MB)	Joshua Jonathan	Changed map 6: added Globular Amphora culture
	06:02, 16 December 2016	1,200 × 598 (2.28 MB)	Joshua Jonathan	Improved last frame (larger extent for Vedic territory)
	12:26, 14 December 2016	1,200 × 598 (2.28 MB)	Joshua Jonathan	Added arrows; improved last frame; compressed
	10:27, 13 December 2016	1,200 × 598 (7.13 MB)	Joshua Jonathan	Removed crossfade of frames; file becomes too large (though it's very nice)
	10:21, 13 December 2016	1,200 × 598 (72.35 MB)	Joshua Jonathan	Improved last frame
	20:52, 12 December 2016	1,200 × 598 (7.15 MB)	Joshua Jonathan	User created page with UploadWizard