Max Planck institute now retreats, leaving the steppe theory for dead, shifting to what Mallory had called the Plan A Anatolian PIE theory, which Renfrew himself had earlier been forced to reject.
Max Planck is thus following Balanovsky & co.'s 2016 paper which announced that Yamna did not cause a migration into Europe. (Recall that Balanovsky in his 2015 paper itself was pushing for Anatolian Neolithic Plan A theory, though that paper itself focused on Iran and modern DNA to explain past movements.)
(Also, an Indian invasionist paper of this year had - like Max Planck - opportunistically shifted to projecting an Anatolian Plan A PIE theory for AIT into India, after wanting to initially declare invasions from the steppes).
Max Planck has now retreated to declare a 2500 BCE invasion of Paki IVC by "IE" speaking entities (but a 1500 BCE invasion of India) from western Asia (looks like Anatolia still*). And a branch of IVC/BMAC going into the steppes (i.e looks like Andronovo horizon starting with Sintashta).
* Though where in Anatolian aDNA are the paternal genetic lineages - i.e. Y markers - that every IEist had originally been placing their bets on?
Reason for this major change by the Max Planck Institute, desperate to hold on to PIEism/AIT even if it means killing steppism/Kurgan theory?
I'm guessing here, but I'm sure I'm right:
The reason would be that they know that Indian aDNA has killed the steppe demons theory. (Note: Iranian aDNA couldn't kill any of it.**)
They won't wait for pre-Bronze Age/Neolithic Indian aDNA of course. Let alone from interior India. I say they've gleaned the bronze age Indian aDNA and it killed the steppe theory.
Interesting (predictable) that it seems like the Max Planck Institute has BMAC (or is it IVC) branching to seed Andronovo horizon (starts with Sintashta).
** Iranian aDNA did however kill the whole "light/blue eyes implies European intrusion into India" when the earliest demonstrably blue eye-carrying individual was from Neolithic Iran besides carrying the modern common Euro haplotype (checked and double-checked). The Boncuklu Anatolian set had a sample that was homozygous carrier (inbreeding! not necessarily the origin population) for the haplotype, but the crucial locus for the blue eye mutation in the sample was IIRC not to be read. So we don't know whether he carried the actual mutation. Either way, the mutation for light eyes did not enter India from "Europeans" let alone alleged Bronze age invasions.)
Removed threats. The threats themselves stand, of course - they don't need me to articulate them, as they stand on their own.
Max Planck is thus following Balanovsky & co.'s 2016 paper which announced that Yamna did not cause a migration into Europe. (Recall that Balanovsky in his 2015 paper itself was pushing for Anatolian Neolithic Plan A theory, though that paper itself focused on Iran and modern DNA to explain past movements.)
(Also, an Indian invasionist paper of this year had - like Max Planck - opportunistically shifted to projecting an Anatolian Plan A PIE theory for AIT into India, after wanting to initially declare invasions from the steppes).
Max Planck has now retreated to declare a 2500 BCE invasion of Paki IVC by "IE" speaking entities (but a 1500 BCE invasion of India) from western Asia (looks like Anatolia still*). And a branch of IVC/BMAC going into the steppes (i.e looks like Andronovo horizon starting with Sintashta).
* Though where in Anatolian aDNA are the paternal genetic lineages - i.e. Y markers - that every IEist had originally been placing their bets on?
Reason for this major change by the Max Planck Institute, desperate to hold on to PIEism/AIT even if it means killing steppism/Kurgan theory?
I'm guessing here, but I'm sure I'm right:
The reason would be that they know that Indian aDNA has killed the steppe demons theory. (Note: Iranian aDNA couldn't kill any of it.**)
They won't wait for pre-Bronze Age/Neolithic Indian aDNA of course. Let alone from interior India. I say they've gleaned the bronze age Indian aDNA and it killed the steppe theory.
Interesting (predictable) that it seems like the Max Planck Institute has BMAC (or is it IVC) branching to seed Andronovo horizon (starts with Sintashta).
** Iranian aDNA did however kill the whole "light/blue eyes implies European intrusion into India" when the earliest demonstrably blue eye-carrying individual was from Neolithic Iran besides carrying the modern common Euro haplotype (checked and double-checked). The Boncuklu Anatolian set had a sample that was homozygous carrier (inbreeding! not necessarily the origin population) for the haplotype, but the crucial locus for the blue eye mutation in the sample was IIRC not to be read. So we don't know whether he carried the actual mutation. Either way, the mutation for light eyes did not enter India from "Europeans" let alone alleged Bronze age invasions.)
Removed threats. The threats themselves stand, of course - they don't need me to articulate them, as they stand on their own.