The Kurgan hypothesis argues that the Yamnaya people spread their culture widely across Eurasia, including through the building of burial mounds, or “kurgans,” such as this one on the Mongolian steppe ...

Recently, scientists have pointed to human remains from the Yamnaya culture dating back to about 3500 B.C. as a key piece of evidence supporting the Kurgan hypothesis.

By far the most dominant model for horse domestication, though, has been the Indo-European hypothesis, also known as the “Kurgan hypothesis.” It argues that, sometime in the fourth millennium ...

The Kurgan (pictured) from the movie Highlander wasn't based on a specific person but on a real-life people: the Kurgans, an ancient nomadic people from the Pontic-Caspian steppe.