These are nothing more than assumptions based upon bad
history - the problem with many "Internet authors."
History is never static, and I suspect your overriding
desire is to give exclusivity and priority to "all
things Indian," which has more to do with the current,
blinkered "Indocentricism" (misplaced nationalism)
which India is currently struggling with, rather than
any concern for historical truth.
To get a perspective on how dynamic the Neolithic,
Paleolithic, Copper and Bronze Ages realy were, I
would suggest that you read some of the following
authors (not Internet-based): Khazanov, Potemkhina,
Hodder, Kalicz, Bordes, Adam, Behn, Schlabow (a bit
old, but still good). And it might be good to also
read Drews. History is about human curiosity, and as a
rule humans are never content to shut themselves up in
a cacoon, and they like to move around.
And as for Haeusler, I suspect the reference is out of
context, especially given the record of his work on
Kurgan burials.
I would suggest that you approach history not as a
vast conspiracy theory designed to minimize and negate
"the wonder that was India," rather that you learn to
appreciate history as a dynamic force that continually
merges, blends and mixes people, whoever they might
be, along with their cultures and ideas. History never
behaves the way we might want it to.
Best,
Nirmal Dass
--- mkelkar2003 <
smykelkar@...> wrote:
>
> http://www.continuitas.com/intro.html
>
> "As is known, until recently the received doctrine
> for the origins of
> Indo-Europeans (IE) in Europe was centered upon the
> idea - now called
> the `myth' (H�usler 2003) - of an Indo-European
> Invasion in the Copper
> Age (IV millennium B.C.), by horse-riding warrior
> pastoralists. The
> last and most authoritative version of this theory
> was the so called
> kurgan theory, elaborated by Marija Gimbutas,
> according to which the
> Proto-IE were the warrior pastoralists who built
> kurgan, i.e. burial
> mounds, in the steppe area of Ukraine (e.g. Gimbutas
> 1970, 1973, 1977,
> 1980)."
>
> " Although most IE specialists are still reluctant
> to admit it, this
> chronology, as well as the scenario behind it, can
> now be considered
> as altogether obsolete. The evidence collected by
> archaeology in the
> last thirty years, in fact, overwhelmingly prove the
> absence of any
> large scale invasion in Europe, and the
> uninterrupted continuity of
> most Copper and Bronze Age cultures of Europe from
> Neolithic, and of
> most Neolithic cultures from Mesolithic and final
> Paleolithic."
>
>
> Hari Ohm Tat Sat.
>
> M. Kelkar
>
>
>
>
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