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A geographical feature stretches from the northern shores of the Black Sea. In the Pontus Euxinus of antiquity
It extends to the northern area, around the Caspian Sea. And, At the Ural-Caspian narrowing, it ends. Where it joins another steppe. The Kazakh Steppe (Kazakhstan) in Central Asia.

The area covers almost 1 million square kilometers
It is 994,000 km or 384,000 square miles.

The steppe is bounded by the east European forest steppe to the north

To the south, it extends to the Black Sea, except the western Caucasus mountains’ border with the sea

It goes around the Caspian lowland desert and is bound to the Kazakh Steppe in the east
Its western border is around the Black sea.

Genetic research has identified this area is significant
This region as the most probable place where horses were first domesticated. (1) And, it is most prevalent in Indo-European studies.

Scientists speculate that the Pontic–Caspian steppe was the homeland of proto-Indo-European language speakers. It is called the Kurgan hypothesis
Nowadays with scientific advances, genome DNA mapping, and bioarchaeology. The Kurgan hypothesis is considered most valid. For the origins of modern language. (2)(3)(4)

Pontic–Caspian steppe neolithic cultures:
-Linear Pottery culture 5500 to 4500 BC
-Cucuteni-Trypillian culture 5300 to 2600 BC
-Khvalynsk culture 5000 to 3500 BC
-Sredny Stog culture 4500 to 3500 BC
-Maykop culture 3700 to 3000 BC
-Yamnaya/Kurgan cultures 3500 to 2300 BC

Cite: 1) “Mystery Of Horse Domestication Solved?” (https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/04/090423142541.htm). sciencedaily.com

2) Shinde, Vasant; Narasimhan, Vagheesh M.; Rohland, Nadin; Mallick, Swapan; Mah, Matthew; Lipson, Mark; Nakatsuka, Nathan; Adamski, Nicole; Broomandkhoshbacht, Nasreen; Ferry, Matthew; Lawson, Ann Marie; Michel, Megan; Oppenheimer, Jonas; Stewardson, Kristin;
Jadhav, Nilesh (October 2019). “An Ancient Harappan Genome Lacks Ancestry from Steppe Pastoralists or Iranian Farmers” (https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6800651).
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3) “2 THE YAMNAYA CULTURE AND THE INVENTION OF NOMADIC PASTORALISM IN THE EURASIAN STEPPES” (https://scholar.google.com/citations?view_op=view_citation&hl=en&us
er=EkHwVHwAAAAJ&sortby=pubdate&citation_for_view=EkHwVHwAAAAJ:vDijr-p_gm4C).scholar.google.com.

4) “Ancient DNA and migrations: New understandings and misunderstandings” (https://scholar.google.com/citations?view_op=view_citation&hl=en&user=EkHwVHwAAAAJ&sortby=pubdate&cit
ation_for_view=EkHwVHwAAAAJ:BUYA1_V_uYcC). scholar.google.com.

Bibliography: David W. Anthony (2010). The Horse, the Wheel, and Language: How Bronze-Age Riders from the Eurasian Steppes Shaped the Modern World. Princeton University Press. ISBN 978-1400831104

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