What DNA Says About Aryan Invasion Theory-1

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Dr. Koenraad Elst repeatedly states that states that
Millet is an intrusion into Europe:

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He combines the linguistic evidence with
archaeological and anthropological indications that
the (supposedly PIE-speaking) Kurgan people in the
North-Caspian area of ca. 4000 BC came from the
southeast, a finding which might just as well be cited
in support of their Indian origin.  Thus, the Kurgan
people’s typical grain was millet, not the rye and
wheat cultivated by the Old Europeans, and in ca. 5000
BC, millet had been cultivated in what is now
Turkmenistan (it apparently originates in China),
particularly in the Mesolithic culture of Jebel.
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The archaeological evidence also indicates an abrupt
change, suggesting an immigration, and more
particularly an immigration from the east: “Local
evolution cannot account for such abrupt changes (…)
The pottery is relatable to the earliest Neolithic in
the Middle Urals and Soviet Central Asia.”22 We
already saw how the Kurgan people brought the
cultivation of millet from Central Asia.23 All in all,
there is now a very strong case for an Asian origin,
dated to before 4500 BC, of the Kurgan culture.
Tracing these pre-Kurganites to India is a job yet to
be done, but at present it should certainly be
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..it is worth noting that Oppenheimer confirms that
“barley cultivation was developed in the Indus Valley”
(p.19), barley being the favourite crop of the Vedic
Aryans (yava). Unlike the Mundas who brought rice
cultivation from eastern India and ultimately from
Southeast Asia to northwestern India, and unlike the
Indo-European Kurgan people whose invasion into Europe
can be followed by means of traces of the crops they
imported (esp. millet), the Vedic Aryans simply used
the native produce. This doesn’t prove but certainly
supports the suspicion that the Aryans were native to
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Millet origin In China

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http://carbon14.univ-lyon1.fr/stonage.htm
(based on information from a Russian source)
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The Late Neolithic cultures, dated to ca. 5,000-3,000
BP, have had the complex economy including the millet
agriculture on Sea of Japan coast and Khanka Plain,
Maritime Province. The Neolithic-Early Iron Age
boundary is 14C dated to ca. 3,000 BP in continental
part of the Russian Far East, and ca. 2,000 BP on the
Sakhalin
and Kurile Islands. Three major events in Northeast
Asian prehistory, specifically pottery invention,
shellfish utilization, and dryland millet agriculture,
can be correlated within the region on the base of the
ancient cultures 14C date sequences. The pottery
emergence seems to happened independently in different
areas of East Asia, including southern Japan, ca.
12,000-12,700 BP; southern China, ca.11,000-14,000 BP;
and the Amur River basin, ca. 13,000 BP.

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The millet-type agriculture started in northern and
northeastern
China ca. 7,700-6,400 BP, and around 4,000-5,000 BP
have spread
toward Korea, Japanese Isles, and the Russian Far
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