Migration of Indo-European people, cultures and their languages.

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1. >Scheme of Indo-European language dispersals from c. 4000 to 1000 BCE according to the widely held Kurgan hypothesis.
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   >Center: Steppe cultures
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   >1 (black): Anatolian languages (archaic PIE)
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   >2 (black): Afanasievo culture (early PIE)
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   >3 (black): Yamnaya culture expansion (Pontic-Caspian steppe, Danube Valley) (late PIE)
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   >4A (black): Western Corded Ware
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   >4B-C (blue & dark blue): Bell Beaker; adopted by Indo-European speakers
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   >5A-B (red): Eastern Corded ware
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   >5C (red): Sintashta (proto-Indo-Iranian)
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   >6 (magenta): Andronovo
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   >7A (purple): Indo-Aryans (Mittani)
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   >7B (purple): Indo-Aryans (India)
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   >[NN] (dark yellow): proto-Balto-Slavic
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   >8 (grey): Greek
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   >9 (yellow): Iranians
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   >– [not drawn]: Armenian, expanding from western steppe

   [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indo-European_migrations](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indo-European_migrations)

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3. Ok but how did they get *there* (to point 1)