For more than a hundred years, scientists have been investigating the problem of the origin of Indo-European peoples. However, there are still too many unresolved issues: "Those constructions on ethnogenesis that scientists arranged to some extent several decades ago now no longer satisfy ethnogenetic science," wrote a few years ago, the Soviet archaeologist V. V. Sedov wrote about the current situation in Indo-European studies. . And what is proposed to be considered in this article is also, of course, preliminary. Rather, it is a material for reflection.