Aryan Invasion/migration Theories & Debates -2

[acharya]

<b>AIT and a sneak attack</b>

Many of you must be familiar with how the Aryan Invasion Theory (AIT) is now all but dead������

We probably don�t need another nail in its coffin but here is one that I came across late last year (buried deep under my �TO DO� list): �India Acquired Language, Not Genes, From West, Study Says�

What is really interesting about the article though is not its mention of AIT being disputed but the surreptitious (and easily overlooked) mention of �technology� amongst things that do not appear to be indigenous and may have come from outside the region (excerpt: �If steppe-dwelling Central Asians did lend language and technology, but not many genes��)

Oddly though, nowehere�in the article is there any evidence of �technology� being borrowed from Central Asia.

I wonder if this is just a bad copy or a subtle attempt at undermining the�scientific and technological achievements in ancient India? (Please read: “Does no one remember the Indian contribution to Technology?“)

Brief Excerpts:

�Most modern Indians descended from South Asians, not invading Central Asian steppe dwellers, a new genetic study reports.

�The finding disputes a long-held theory that a large invasion of central Asians, traveling through a northwest Indian corridor, shaped the language, culture, and gene pool of many modern Indians within the past 10,000 years.

� Vijendra Kashyap�s (Director of India’s National Institute of Biologicals in Noida)�findings, published in the current issue of the Proceedings of the National Academies of Science, stand at odds with those results.

�The data reveal that the large majority of modern Indians descended from South Asian ancestors who lived on the Indian subcontinent before an influx of agricultural techniques from the north and west arrived some 10,000 years ago.”
http://satyameva-jayate.org/2007/05/24/a...ak-attack/