Male line analysis: Your Y-group is R1a

All members of Y-Group R1a can trace their Y chromosomes back to one man who is thought to have lived about 10 to 15 thousand years ago, probably in Western Asia. This man belonged to a group of hunter-gatherers that may later have made the Eurasian Steppes north of the Black and Caspian Seas their homeland. Some scientists believe that the male-line ancestors of Y-group R1a were among those responsible for the westwards expansion of the so-called Kurgan culture into Eastern and Central Europe about 5 thousand years ago. These peoples had domesticated the horse and may have been responsible for the spread of the first Indo-European languages into Europe.

Today, the greatest concentration of Y-group R1a members is found in the Slavic peoples of Eastern Europe, where 30 to 50 percent of males belong to this Y-group. Members are also found in Central and Western Asia, India, Pakistan, as well as among some populations of Mongolia and southern Siberia.