--- John Croft <
jdcroft@...> wrote:
>snip> With the > collapse of the Bronze Age economies
circa 1,200> BCE, they were > eclipsed by the Iranians
to the north, who having a> "purer > pastoralism" seem
to have wealthered the climatic> collapse of the
> late bronze age better than did the>
agriculturalists...
I am indeed grateful for the erudite postings in the
mailing list on this topic. It helps a lot in
clarifying the mist.
The vedic texts show no evidence whatsoever of
migration into the sindhu region while there is
evidence of internal movements within the region
stretching from the Sindhu to the Ganga-Yamuna doab.
Is it not interesting the collapse of the bronze age
ca. 1200 BCE coincides with the final sequence of
desiccation of the 1600 km. long river Sarasvati (from
Ropar to the Rann of Kutch and on through the little
Rann upto the Gulf of Khambat in the Arabian Sea,
called Sindhu saagara)? [This could have led to
movements east of the river towards the Ganga-Yamuna
doab, south of Saurashtra hugging the Arabian coast,
west and north-west of Sindhu into Afghanistan.] Could
Haraqvaiti be a name adapted from this grander
Himalayan river course in NW Bharat? If so, could
post-vedic movements be postulated out of Bharat? One
evidence is that the Vedic has the merged a, o, e;
Gypsy shows the differentiation of Indo-Aryan a into
a,o,e sound changes; could a similar pattern of vowel
differentiation explain IE patterns of vowels?
Regards and thanks again, Dr. S. Kalyanaraman
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