One picture is worth ten thousand words: 10,000 years of Indo-European languages

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Back in 2023, Heggarty et al published in Science a most beautiful paper: Language trees with sampled ancestors support a hybrid model for the origin of Indo-European languages, which contains this beautiful picture that shows us the evolution of Indo-European languages for the past ten millennia and it even provides a reconciliation, a "hybrid hypothesis" for the steppe and the Caucasus camps: