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cybalist@yahoogroups.com, "mkelkar2003" <smykelkar@...>
wrote:
> --- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, "Francesco Brighenti"
<frabrig@...:
> >
> > --- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, "mkelkar2003" <smykelkar@...>
> wrote:
> > >
> > > As always non-linguistic evidence is the ultimate > > >
adjudicator of the matter. All I can say is that genetic evidence >
> > points to a flow of humans from the Indian subcontinent to the
north > > > not the other way round.
> >
> > How many tens of thousand years ago did this genetic > > flow
occur?
>
> Please see sections 6.2 and 9.2 of proto vedic continuity >
theory.doc
Where I read:
<< Stephen Oppenheimer who has synthesized the available genetic
evidence with climatology and archaeology notes the advances made in
studies of mitochondrial DNA inherited through the mother and Y
chromosomes inherited by males from the father. His conclusion is
that while Africa is the cradle of all mankind (having left Africa
about 90,000 years ago), India is the cradle of all non-African
peoples (who during a glacial break 50,000 years ago moved out of
India, into the Russian steppes, on to Eastern Europe, northeast
through China and across the now submerged Bering Strait into the
Americas
.Oppenheimer (2003) goes on to conclude: "'First, that
the Europeans' genetic homeland was originally in South Asia in the
Pakistan/Gulf region over 50,000 years ago; and second, that the
Europeans' ancestors followed at least two widely separated routes
to arrive, ultimately, in the same cold but rich garden. The
earliest of these routes was the Fertile Crescent. The second early
route from South Asia to Europe may have been up the Indus into
Kashmir and on to Central Asia, where perhaps more than 40,000 years
ago hunters first started bringing down game as large as mammoths."
>>
So, I have the answer (although you did not bother to spare me a
search in your _magnus opus_): that out-of-India genetic flow
occured some 50-40 kybp. Thanks, that's what I was looking for. How
does this datum relate to the IE homeland question?
Regards,
Francesco