This is the first of four posts on the Corded Ware—Uralic identification:

• Corded Ware—Uralic (I): Differences and similarities with Yamna
• Corded Ware—Uralic (II): Finno-Permic and the expansion of N-L392/Siberian ancestry
• Corded Ware—Uralic (III): “Siberian ancestry” and Ugric-Samoyedic expansions
• Corded Ware—Uralic (IV): Haplogroups R1a and N in Finno-Ugric and Samoyedic

I was reading The Bronze Age Landscape in the Russian Steppes: The Samara Valley Project (2016), and I was really surprised to find the following excerpt by David W. Anthony:

The Samara Valley links the central steppes with the western steppes and is a north-south ecotone between the pastoral

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