--- mkelkar2003 <
smykelkar@...> wrote:
>
> 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 superseded by latest archaeological research.
****GK: You don't seem to get it. Klejn assumes
nothing of the kind. He simply points out that the
affinities between the analyzed remnants of the
Catacomb culture and the civilization described in the
Rig Veda is not accidental. There is sufficient
archaeological and linguistic evidence to indicate a
gradual movement of post-Catacombers towards the south
and southeast. That's good enough. And the "latest
archaeological research" happens to be that of
Kul'baka (described in his works of 1998, 2000, and
2002). It strongly confirms Klejn's main
contention.******
>
> "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)."
*****GK: There doesn't have to be. If the Indo-Aryans
gradually moved towards India from the Eurasian
steppes, their appearance in the Indus valley is
hardly surprising. The lack of archaeological evidence
only indicates there were very few "invaders". And
there is nothing demonstrably "Indo-European" about
Harappa...*****
> "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)."
*****GK: As to BMAC, I agree.If the Andronovo horizon
is not fundamentally Indo-Iranian then the indubitable
Indo-Iranian characteristics of daughter cultures
becomes inexplicable.****
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