Nichols is at the level of Einstein compared to the pedestrian fare dished out by the usual eurocentric culprits. Here are a few of her points:
1. The northern and southern trajectories meet in the vicinity of Bactria-Sogdiana aka Gandhara
2. The northern and southern trajectories carry archaic forms outwards which are subsequently isolated from innovations in the center; this accounts for an archaic kentum periphery and a more recent satem center; the alternative is having a contemporaneous kentum and satem expanding in opposite directions with special superhuman exceptions for early Hittite, Tocharian, and Bangani in the East !!
3. The early separation of hittite and tocharian results in their straddling the originating locus; in contrast, a western locus would mean trajectories in widely opposite directions for these two early branches.
Expansion from a significant demographic center is necessary to explain the patterns; only South Asia fulfills this empirical criteria:
http://anthropology.net/2008/02/05/mtdna-v...s-through-time/
Talageri quoting Nichols:
http://www.bharatvani.org/books/rig/ch7.htm
Summary of R1a1 and R2 evidence (R1a1 was used as a euro marker until it was discovered that the highest diversities and frequencies are to be found in Kashmir, Puunjab, and UP; predictably, there was a big hysterics and other tamasha):
http://www.archaeologyonline.net/artifacts...yan-debate.html
North by Southeast by Subhash Kak:
http://subhash-kak.sulekha.com/blog/post/2...y-southeast.htm
The Cradle that is India by Subhash Kak:
http://www.rediff.com/news/2005/mar/08kak.htm
1. The northern and southern trajectories meet in the vicinity of Bactria-Sogdiana aka Gandhara
2. The northern and southern trajectories carry archaic forms outwards which are subsequently isolated from innovations in the center; this accounts for an archaic kentum periphery and a more recent satem center; the alternative is having a contemporaneous kentum and satem expanding in opposite directions with special superhuman exceptions for early Hittite, Tocharian, and Bangani in the East !!
3. The early separation of hittite and tocharian results in their straddling the originating locus; in contrast, a western locus would mean trajectories in widely opposite directions for these two early branches.
Expansion from a significant demographic center is necessary to explain the patterns; only South Asia fulfills this empirical criteria:
http://anthropology.net/2008/02/05/mtdna-v...s-through-time/
Talageri quoting Nichols:
http://www.bharatvani.org/books/rig/ch7.htm
Summary of R1a1 and R2 evidence (R1a1 was used as a euro marker until it was discovered that the highest diversities and frequencies are to be found in Kashmir, Puunjab, and UP; predictably, there was a big hysterics and other tamasha):
http://www.archaeologyonline.net/artifacts...yan-debate.html
North by Southeast by Subhash Kak:
http://subhash-kak.sulekha.com/blog/post/2...y-southeast.htm
The Cradle that is India by Subhash Kak:
http://www.rediff.com/news/2005/mar/08kak.htm