.  Who were the Proto-Indo-Europeans?  Formerly the existence of the Proto-Indo-Europeans (aka Aryans) was based purely on linguistic evidence, but recent analysis of DNA of the Yamnaya culture, demonstrates their genetic legacy on Indo-European cultures in a timeframe that matches the expansion proposed by linguists. Most interesting of all, despite the fact these people started off in the Pontic Caspian steppe, the modern populations who bear the closest genetic resemblance to them are NorthernEuropeans. This video explains what genetic and linguistic evidence tells us about how they lived, what they looked like and what their pagan religion was like. I also respond to Varg's VR about the bear cult and point out that the Proto-Indo-Europeans certainly revered bears. This channel depends on your support: Paypal: https://www.paypal.me/survivethejive Card payments: https://rootbocks.com/projects/survive-the-jive/ Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/survivethejive FB: https://www.facebook.com/SurviveTheJive/ Reading list: Massive migration from the steppe was source for Indo-European languages in Europehttp://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v000/n0000/abs/nature00000.htmlSteppe people had healthy genes http://biorxiv.org/content/early/0000/00/00/000000 00% of British DNA replaced in Neolithic by steppe descended invaders http://eurogenes.blogspot.se/0000/00/the-bell-beaker-behemoth_00.html 0 populations make up modern Europeans https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B000wEaS0EWqMGxGSTBTc0VxVVU/view Culture and language among Corded ware people https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B000wEaS0EWqMDVyQUlQb0hUY00/view https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B000wEaS0EWqX0hCNHZzS00kZWc/view  