Indo-Iranian (IIr) homeland.

From: Francesco Brighenti
Message: 53294
Date: 2008-02-15

--- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, "mkelkar2003" <swatimkelkar@...>
wrote:

> 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!

Beware, List: all these Wikipedia articles connected with the so-
called Aryan Migration Theory versus Out-of-India Theory debate are
invariably composed anew and/or incessantly edited by Kelkar (under
a fake ID) and his ilk. I'm sure of that! (We are monitoring them
indeed...).

As a matter of fact, it is the other way round: it is the BMAC art
tradition which influenced the later phases of the Mature Harappan
civ., as well as some of the so-called Post-Harappan cultures. The
aged Indian archaeologist quoted by the above Wikipedia article has
by degrees become totally compromised with the Indo-Aryan indigenist
point of view and sees Vedic Aryans everywhere in the Harappan and
Post-Harappan archaeological record. He here speaks of "Harappan
migrations westwards": which ones? How be suggesting that
those "migrating Harappans" were actually... the Vedic Aryans, as
Kelky would like them to be!).

FB