What DNA Says About Aryan Invasion Theory -2

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Look at the body language: the three westerners in the middle, flanked by a group of token nonwhites; but atleast everyone is smiling, except for weasel.



The Conference Proceedings are hosted on 'Shikhanda' run by Wim van Binsbergen (Netherlands). Apparently, he is "critically" supportive of the Black Athena theis, but has managed to come up with an exact opposite variant:

Relying on the recently discovered ‘Back-into-Africa’ migration from Central and West Asia from the Upper Palaeolithic times onward, and on recent reconstructions of the Upper Palaeolithic *Borean parent language, the present argument offers a powerful alternative for the Black Athena thesis: The Aegean region looks similar to Ancient Egypt, not primarily because of diffusion from Egypt in the Late Bronze Age, but because both were the recipients of a demic, linguistic and cultural movement from West (ultimately Central) Asia; and this movement also extended to sub-Saharan Africa, producing...



....However, while thus the argument has rather devastating implications for Afrocentrism including the Bernallian variant, it could not have been made without Bernal's visionary and path-breaking contribution. [color="#008080"][[very condescending]][/color] http://www.shikanda.net/afrocentrism/index.htm

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Now there is some reason to suspect a back-to-africa migration from interior Asia (and also C Asia, but he seems to have excluded interior asia with the usual motives). This fellow seems to be surfing upon this research or rather hijacking for his own career.



Now, both these guys Binsbergen and Oppenheimer are sporting theses which posit an extreme Asian dynamism in prehistory compared to the west. Binsbergen may be a case of denying Africans a case by setting up an Asian foil (instead of a European one which is just not possible given the evidence). Oppenheimer of course is a genuine.



This is exactly the last place you would expect weasel to be cavorting around. Probably, Binsbergen is a western plant; Witzel knows this; and Witzel has requested Binsbergen to interface with Oppenheimer on the Sunda thesis so as to limit the horizon to Sunda (not India). Thus, no Indian in the panel, otherwise people would have asked: what about India? All the Asiatic regions are dynamic except India?? It would have been easy enough to include a Dravidianist or another sepoy...



The other thing which strikes me is that Martin Bernal was apparently trained as a Sinologist. Elst is the same way and took up a similar position with regard to the natives.