Editing Proto-Indo-Europeans (section)

=====Eastern European hunter-gatherers=====
According to {{harvtxt|Haak|Lazaridis|Patterson|Rohland|2015}}, "Eastern European hunter-gatherers" who inhabited Russia were a distinctive population of hunter-gatherers with high affinity to a ~24,000-year-old Siberian from the [[Mal'ta-Buret' culture]], or other, [[Afontova Gora|closely related]] Ancient North Eurasian (ANE) people from Siberia and to the [[Western Hunter-Gatherer]]s (WHG).{{sfn|Haak|Lazaridis|Patterson|Rohland|2015}}<ref group=web name="bbcnov16"/> Remains of the "Eastern European hunter-gatherers" have been found in Mesolithic or early Neolithic sites in [[Karelia]] and [[Samara Oblast]], Russia, and put under analysis. Three such hunter-gathering individuals of the male sex have had their DNA results published. Each was found to belong to a different [[Y-DNA]] [[haplogroup]]: [[R1a]], [[R1b]], and [[Haplogroup J (Y-DNA)|J]].<ref name=Mathieson/> R1b is also the most common Y-DNA haplogroup found among both the Yamnaya and modern-day Western Europeans. R1a is  more common in Eastern Europeans and in the northern parts of the Indian subcontinent.{{Sfn|Haak|Lazaridis|Patterson|Rohland|2015}}<ref name=allen/>