Dating back to around 4300 B.c, the Kurgan travelled and conquered much of Europe and South Africa. According to the Nomadic Warrior Thesis, they were the first to speak the Proto-Indo-European Ancestral Language and diffuesed it while travelling.

What is the Kurgan warrior theory?

The Kurgan hypothesis describes the initial spread of Proto-Indo-European during the 5th and 4th millennia BC. As used by Gimbutas, the term "kurganized" implied that the culture could have been spread by no more than small bands who imposed themselves on local people as an elite.

Who were the Kurgans and where did they live?

The earliest known kurgans are dated to the 5th millennium BC in eastern Europe. Kurgans were used in Ukrainian and Russian steppes, their use spreading with migration into southern, central, and northern Europe in the 3rd millennium BC.