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cybalist@yahoogroups.com, george knysh <gknysh@...> wrote:
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> --- mkelkar2003 <swatimkelkar@...> wrote:
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> But you are partly right. It is quite old
> > and it is not
> > useful anymore.
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> ****GK: "If necessary I can shut my eyes" (Burnham on
> ideological argumentation) (:=)))****
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> Even Walimbe the staunch proponent
> > of AIT in India
> > has changed his views. Now he is on Renfrew's side.
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> ****GK: So? What does this have to do with Kleijn's
> approach?****
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> > See the excerpts
> > I posted earlier from Petraglia and Allchin (2007).
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> ****GK: It would be better if you tried to show why
> Kleijn "is not useful any more".The evidence he
> adduces is still there.****
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The first paragarph from the link you posted:
The R(i)gveda 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. The Painted Grey Ware (PGW) culture (dated
between 1300 and 800 B.C.), which surely belongs to the Vedic Aryans,
was already developed in India. The problem however is: what
culture did their ancestors possess and where did they live?"
The Rig Veda and other text of the ancient Indian religion absolutely
do not reveal any such colonization by "Aryans".
"The Painted Grey Ware (PGW) culture (dated between 1300 and 800
B.C.), which surely belongs to the Vedic Aryans, was already
developed in India"
It does? "Surely" How? 1984 was the time when archaeologist simply
accepted the
speculative theoris generated by IEL. Most if not every single Indian
and Western archaeologist are now going there separate ways. i.e.
that do not find any archaeolgical evidence for such a colonization
which since then been diluted to "transhumance" (Witzel 2003)of Indo-
Aryans.
M. Kelkar
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