Re: Indo-Iranian (IIr) homeland.

From: george knysh
Message: 53280
Date: 2008-02-15

--- mkelkar2003 <swatimkelkar@...> wrote:
GK: I'm more interested in what Kyiv, Donetsk
> and
> > Moscow archaeologists wrote and write about
> this.>
>
> Ok, no problem. In the mean time see what Dhavalikar
> an Indian
> archaeologist says about Altyn Depe South East of
> Caspian Sea:
>
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:AltynDepeMap.jpg
>
> ""The (Central Asian) Altyn Depe evidence (of a
> society stratified by
> occupation, Masson 1988) belongs to the third
> millennium whereas the
> arrangement was in vogue in the Harappan townships
> from about
> 2600-2500 BC and it is therefore highly probable
> that the Harappans
> may have influenced the Central Asians among whom
> the differences
> became more rigid. This is all the more likely in
> view of the fact
> that Harappan migrations westwards began from about
> 2200 BC
> (Dhavalikar 2007, p. 105, parentheses added)."
>
> aka The Indian Homeland Theory!
>
> Dhavalikar, M. K. (2007). The aryans: myth and
> archaeology. New
> Delhi: Munshiram Manoharlal Publishers Pvt. Ltd.
> ISBN: 81-215-1169-0

****GK: Has Dhavalikar become ideological? If so, here
is an article(old but still extremely useful) which he
helped to publish in India when science still meant
something:
http://www.egyptologie.be/decan_college_43_1984p57_aryans_kleijn.htm

Archaeological excavations since 1984 have provided
much new evidence confirming Kleijn's views.****



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