That employment of genetics
Would help scientists unravel
Paths of pre-historic travel,
Were not ignored, and never lost on
Searchers in Denmark and in Boston,
Comparing ancient DNA samples
With those of living Man's examples.
The problem was, if they could trace
Migrations of the human race,
And try to determine, when
Europe became host to Man?
They found proof of three times,
When homo came to Europe's climes.
First – 400,000 years!
The hunter-gatherers were here.
Then, some 8000 years ago,
Came to Europe's fields and hills,
Mid-East farmers, bringing skills,
Their tools and their plows.
4000 years later came
Shepherds, Yamnaya by name,
From the Russian steppes, West,
Not with intent for conquest,
But peacefully to interbreed
With the farmers to proceed.
And, while these groups show up
In ancient skeletons, dug up,
They can still be ascertained
In Europeans' DNA chains.
And linguists have also found
That the farmers' and Yayanas' troops
Brought Indo-European sounds
To European language groups.
Thus to anthropologic fields
DNA solutions brings.