Re: Indo-Iranian (IIr) homeland.

--- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, george knysh <gknysh@...> wrote:

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> --- 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.****

Every who does not agree with you either has to be nationalist,
irrrational or ideological! That is some way to advance the casue of
science. But you are partly right. It is quite old and it is not
useful anymore. Even Walimbe the staunch proponent of AIT in India
has changed his views. Now he is on Renfrew's side. See the excerpts
I posted earlier from Petraglia and Allchin (2007).

M. Kelkar

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