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cybalist@yahoogroups.com, george knysh <gknysh@...> wrote:
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> --- george knysh <gknysh@...> wrote:
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> > --- mkelkar2003 <smykelkar@...> wrote:
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> > there were also invasions of Indo-European
> > > warriors to the
> > > > Agean and Adriatic area, to Syro-Palestina and
> > > even to Egypt around
> > > > 2500-2200 B.C. (cf. Gimbutas 1970, pp. 191).
> > > > "
> > > >
> > > > Torsten
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> > > Gimbutastic invasions!
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> > GK: Quite correct as to Syria and Palestine at
> > any
> > rate. Cf.
> > http://www.samorini.net/doc/alt_aut/ek/klejn1.html
> > and
> > figure 1.
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> *****GK: The entire Klejn article is here:
> http://www.samorini.net/doc/alt_aut/ek/klejn.htm
"The Rgveda and other texts of the ancient Indian religion reveal the
gradual colonization of India by the Aryans moving in a northwest to
south-east direction, but they do not give any indications of their
original homeland (Klejn 1984)."
The Rig Veda and other texts absolutely do not "reveal a gradual
colonization of India by "Aryans."
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http://koenraadelst.voiceofdharma.com/articles/aid/vedicevidence.html>
http://koenraadelst.voiceofdharma.com/books/ait/ch42.htm
Michael Witzel of Harvard University has even mistranslated a passage
from Baudhayana Shrauta Sutra to "prove" that such a movement had
occured.
http://www.hindunet.org/saraswati/AMT.html
Anyways, one does not do science by first assuming what one sets out
to prove as Klejn has done. Klejn (1984) is too old and has been
superseded by latest archaeological research.
"There is no archaeological or biological evidence for invasions or
mass migrations into the Indus Valley between the end of the Harrpan
phase , about 1900 B.C., and the beginning of the Early Historic
period around 600 B.C. (Kenoyer 1998, p. 174)."
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http://www.journals.uchicago.edu/cgi-bin/resolve?id=doi:10.1086/324130"
"There is, however, no compelling archaeological evidence that they
(Andronovo and BMAC) had a common ancestor or that either is
Indo-Iranian. Ethnicity and language are not easily linked with an
archaeological signature, and the identity of the Indo-Iranians
remains elusive, (Lamberg Karlovsky 2002, parenthesis added)."
__________ (2002), "Archaeology and Language: The Indo-Iranians,"
Current Anthropology, 43 (1, Feb), p. 64-75.
M. Kelkar
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