From: mkelkar2003
Message: 53301
Date: 2008-02-15
>indigenist
> --- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, "mkelkar2003" <swatimkelkar@>
> wrote:
>
> > 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!
>
> Beware, List: all these Wikipedia articles connected with the so-
> called Aryan Migration Theory versus Out-of-India Theory debate are
> invariably composed anew and/or incessantly edited by Kelkar (under
> a fake ID) and his ilk. I'm sure of that! (We are monitoring them
> indeed...).
>
> As a matter of fact, it is the other way round: it is the BMAC art
> tradition which influenced the later phases of the Mature Harappan
> civ., as well as some of the so-called Post-Harappan cultures. The
> aged Indian archaeologist quoted by the above Wikipedia article has
> by degrees become totally compromised with the Indo-Aryan
> point of view and sees Vedic Aryans everywhere in the Harappan andThat is a quote from Dhavalikar's (2007) book not from the Wikipedia
> Post-Harappan archaeological record. He here speaks of "Harappan
> migrations westwards": which ones? How be suggesting that
> those "migrating Harappans" were actually... the Vedic Aryans, as
> Kelky would like them to be!).
>
> FB