article_snippet: A wave of migrants 4,500 years ago left A wave of migrants 4,500 years ago trace in the DNA and languages of modern Europeans.
article_snippet: This is according to a study that found evidence of this Stone Age migration by analysing DNA of 69 people who lived across Europe between 8,000 and 3,000 years ago.
article_snippet: Among the shifts in the genetic make-up of ancient Europeans they found that DNA associated with the Yamnaya people appeared strongly in what is now northern Germany.
article_snippet: Researchers have identified a mass migration of Kurgan populations (Yamna culture) which went from the Russian steppes to the centre of Europe 4,500 years ago.
article_snippet: Previously, researchers had believed a mass migration of Kurgan populations (Yamna culture) which went from the Russian steppes to the centre of Europe 4,500 years ago spread 8,500 years ago, when the first farmers from the Near East, now modern day Turkey, brought a mass migration of Kurgan populations (Yamna culture) which went from the Russian steppes to the centre of Europe 4,500 years ago to Europe .
article_snippet: This injection of DNA indicates 'a massive migration into the heartland of Europe from The Yamnaya eastern periphery,' said the researchers, led by David Reich of Harvard Medical School.
article_snippet: Such a large-scale influx would likely have affected not just the DNA but ancient cultures as well.
article_snippet: This was followed by a second wave of people several thousand years later from what is today Ukraine and Russia.
article_snippet: Pictured is an early Neolithic 35-40 year old male from, Czech Republic, who was part of the first mass migration to Europe .
highlights_snippet: Study looked at DNA of Europeans who lived  8,000 and 3,000 years ago .
  
highlights_snippet: DNA associated with Yamnaya people appeared in northern Germany .
  
highlights_snippet: This suggests a large influx that would have changed speech and DNA .
  