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	'''Indo-Europeans''' are speakers of ]. The term may apply to

	* The ] (speakers of the hypothetical ])
	* ] (3rd to 2nd millennia BC) speakers of Indo-European languages that had not yet split into the attested ], viz. early ] dialects (speakers of languages predating ], ], ], ], ], ] etc.)

	The term "Indo-Europeans" does ''not'' usually refer to speakers of various Indo-European languages in historical times: linguists usually refer to such people specifically as ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ] (or subdivisions of these terms).

	Note that in any event the classification "Indo-European" addresses matters of ], which do not necessarily correlate with divisions of ] or even of specific ].
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	The Indo-European migration had variously been dated to the end of the Neolithic (Marija Gimbutas: Corded ware, Yamna, Kurgan), the early Neolithic (Colin Renfrew: Starčevo-Körös, Linearbandkeramic) and the late Palaeolithic (Marcel Otte, Paleolithic Continuity Theory).

	The speakers of the Proto-Indo-European language are usually believed to have originated to the North of the Black Sea (today Eastern Ukraine and Southern Russia), and from there they gradually migrated into, and spread their language by cultural diffusion to, Anatolia, Europe, and Central Asia and South Asia starting from around the end of the Neolithic period (see Kurgan hypothesis). Other theories, such as that of Colin Renfrew, posit their development much earlier, in Anatolia, and claim that Indo-European languages and culture spread as a result of the agricultural revolution in the early Neolithic. Another theory, known as the Out of India theory, postulates the migration of Indo-European language speakers out of the Indian subcontinent. This theory uses archaeological and genetic evidence. Both these views are disputed by linguistics evidence, however, such as the reconstruction of terminology relating to bronze working in Proto-Indo-European; which suggests that the language did not diverge until such technology was available.

	Relatively little is known about the inhabitants of pre-Indo-European "Old Europe". They are believed to have been hunter-gathers. The Basque language remains from that era, as do the indigenous languages of the Caucasus. The ] are genetically distinct among the peoples of Europe, but the ], as part of the Finno-Ugric languages, spread into Europe about the same time as the Indo-European languages. However, since that period speakers of other Finno-Ugric languages such as the Finns and the Estonians have had more contact with other Europeans, thus today sharing more genes with them than the Sami.

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