Not until around 3000 B.C. the Jamna began to move from east to west, blurring the dividing line. They were the world’s first nomads and were traditionally considered inhabitants of the Pontic Steppe between Ukraine, Russia and Kazakhstan. The new DNA research has even traced their origins to the area around the Don River in Ukraine.
“They had ox carts covered like covered wagons, and they could move across the steppe with their animals — and in this way they were the first to exploit and develop the steppe economically. They were not really involved in agriculture, but during their migration from the Pontic Steppe they had learned from the local population to grow a little barley,’ says archeology professor Kristian Kristiansen in a press release.
When the Jamna first set sail west, they spread rapidly. From Bohemia in what is now the Czech Republic, it took them only 50 years to travel the almost 900 kilometers to the present-day Netherlands and northern Jutland.
“And they burned down the forests everywhere so they could practice their semi-agriculture — with a few crops, mostly barley, and with livestock like oxen and sheep,†Kristiansen says.
2024-01-13 18:21:47
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