Re: [tied] re Integrating linguistics, archaeology, genetics and pa

>
> Growing up in India which is today classified as a thrid world

country

> I never for even a second, thought that the people from
> Russian/Urkranian steppes were elite, or more populous, or

powerful in

> any sense of these terms. I never considered learning their

language

> or finding out about their religion and culture, or ever visting

their

> land.

We gathered that much.

>It is very hard to imagine why things would have been any
> different 5000 years ago.

And that's why there can't have been an emigration from India.

> The Soviets could not even get pass a rag tag Taliban "army" in the
> 80's.
> If they ever succeeded in crossing the Hindukush they would have
> met a highly trained army armed with nuclear weapons.

Who's being prejudiced now?

> But seriously, the Vedic culture/civilization is the only

continously

> practiced tradition in the "Indo-European" world that has been
> supported by a large fertile landmass, favorable climate,

agriculture,

> writing (the undeciphered "Indus" script), etc. etc. to have a

shot

> at an elite status.

If it makes you feel good to think of yourself as belonging to an
elite, by all means do.

> Wandering nomads just do not orally preserve
> texts for thousands and thousands of years as if they were tape
> recorded yesterday.

How do you know that, with your professed disinterest in anything
that has to do with them?


Torsten