From: george knysh
Message: 53278
Date: 2008-02-15
> > > > GK: The Indo-Iranian collectivity broke up****GK: Yes, the Harappans were certainly from India.
> > > before
> > > > the beginning of "history", sometime in the
> third
> > > > millennium BCE, while still in the steppes of
> > > Eurasia.
> > > > This collectivity can be traced back into
> > > > "prehistory", partly on linguistic, partly on
> > > > archaeological grounds. Since the break
> occurred
> > > long
> > > > before the Indo-Aryans appeared in the Indian
> > > > subcontinent as a notable presence, the
> > > reconstruction
> > > > and trace=back does not involve studying
> Indian or
> > > > Iranian archaeological data.
> > >
> > >
> > > Check out what the Harvard archaeologist Lambarg
> > > Karlovsky 2005.pdf
> > > about the "Indo-Iranian" collectivity. Thanks!
> > >
> > > M. Kelkar
> >
> > GK: I'm more interested in what Kyiv, Donetsk
> and
> > Moscow archaeologists wrote and write about
> this.
>
> Ok, no problem. In the mean time see what Dhavalikar
> an Indian
> archaeologist says about Altyn Depe South East of
> Caspian Sea:
>
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:AltynDepeMap.jpg
>
> ""The (Central Asian) Altyn Depe evidence (of a
> society stratified by
> occupation, Masson 1988) belongs to the third
> millennium whereas the
> arrangement was in vogue in the Harappan townships
> from about
> 2600-2500 BC and it is therefore highly probable
> that the Harappans
> may have influenced the Central Asians among whom
> the differences
> became more rigid. This is all the more likely in
> view of the fact
> that Harappan migrations westwards began from about
> 2200 BC
> (Dhavalikar 2007, p. 105, parentheses added)."
>
> aka The Indian Homeland Theory!