If your ancestry is Northern European, you are of the steppe

“A mysterious group of humans from the east stormed western Europe 4,500 years ago — bringing with them technologies such as the wheel, as well as a language that is the forebear of many modern tongues, suggests one of the largest studies of ancient DNA yet conducted. Vestiges of these eastern émigrés exist in the genomes of nearly all contemporary Europeans, according to the authors, who analysed genome data from nearly 100 ancient Europeans1

“DNA recovered from steppe herders that lived in western Russia around 5,000 years ago closely matched that of 4,500-year-old individuals from Germany, who were part of a group known as the Corded Ware culture.

“The herders, named the Yamnaya, lived in present-day Russia and Ukraine and represent ‘a massive migration into the heartland of Europe from its eastern periphery…’”

http://www.nature.com/news/european-languages-linked-to-migration-from-the-east-1.16919

There was a time in history when every event in Europe was caused by movement of peoples in Central Asia. Perhaps the Yamnaya and the farmers from the Middle East were pushed west.

Link at www.gatesofvienna.net