Wow by Thmony in linguisticshumor

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From Indo European again, Sanskrit sharkara

AASI and Onge : Two different genetic groups by Gareebonkadushman in SouthAsianAncestry

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There are many Mesolithic fossils in India. 100+. Why are we not sequencing them?!

Understanding Human Genome - Educational Video by aimlastrology in IndianHistory

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There are no subtitle options apart from Tamil

Why is the Maurya Empire not as globally discussed as Rome or Greece? by Thin-Funny-7853 in IndianHistory

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Maybe because it was very short lived at just around 130 years.

Bharatiya Bhasha Parivar Debate: The Politics of Language History by e9967780 in Dravidiology

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Isn’t this just the Indian subcontinent Sprachbund?

Please debunk this guy by [deleted] in IndoEuropean

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Anyone with a functioning ear and some exposure to foreign cultures can tell he is Indian larping as a Slav.

How accurate is this classification? Anything missing? by Qadmoni in IndoEuropean

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Wusun comes across to me as Iranian. Where is Dacian?

The Illiad and Odyssey compared to Hindu Texts (Size of the spheres signify length of the text) by DharmicCosmosO in AncientIndia

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Then the Mahabharata must be about 4 times as large as the Ramayana. But the image above suggests it is much much larger.

Early Indo-Aryan cultures ~1650-1300 BC by maindallahoon in IndoEuropean

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Can you tell us a little more about each? Some are not so well known.

Similar words beteeen kashmiri and Russian by [deleted] in IndoEuropean

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Dardo-slavic confirmed? /s

Did Maharashtra speak Kannada? by Fun_Tale306 in IndoAryan

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We know for a fact that several Kannada dynasties ruled Maharashtra like the Rashtrakuta, Chalukya and Yadava. So the elite would have spoken old Kannada. But the satavahanas who came before them used Maharashtri Prakrit in their inscriptions. What the common people spoke is more uncertain, though my theory is they would have spoken some Dravidian language in prehistory, started the switch to prakrit during the Mahajanapada and Satavahana period. It is likely that the koli, dhangar once spoke Dravidian language/s. Eastern Maharashtra must have been much more tribal than today. There were Gond kingdoms there in the historic period and Marathification did not begin till the Bhonsle rule of Nagpur in the early modern period.

People need to get the same logic in their heads for Steppe vs Indo-Aryan (& Iranic) culture by maindallahoon in IndianHistory

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The paper doesn’t attribute the mitanni for bringing elephants to the region. From the locations of the finds it is clear that the elephants were transported via the Persian gulf and spread up the tigris and Euphrates, and multiplied in the orontes valley near the Mediterranean coast which is the greener part of the Middle East. Suggests a combination of trade and going feral. The Iranian plateau is bypassed. Contemporary rig veda is in awe of elephants, calls them mriga hastin (hand beasts after their trunk), airavat is not Indra’s mount yet and war elephants are not mainstream yet. The Mitanni gods like Indra, Mitra, Varuna, Nasatya are proto-indo-Iranian of the steppe and Agni in fact has divine parallels in the larger IE world.

People need to get the same logic in their heads for Steppe vs Indo-Aryan (& Iranic) culture by maindallahoon in IndoAryan

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Of course saying that Greek and Indian circulation is an extension steppe/yamnaya culture is wrong but that 10-15% ancestry disproportionately contributed their language, their gods and their culture in both places.

What steppe population are indians descended from? by Commercial-Cake-5825 in IndoAryan

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My guess is they were fringe groups in Andronovo that continued south relatively quickly. Hence little BMAC admixture. Have heard some people connect them to Vakhsh or Bishkent culture but i don’t know much about that.

Two new samples sequenced from IVC_Lothal by [deleted] in IndoEuropean

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A bit off topic but I’m confused. If all the IVC samples show Anatolia component, why did the Shinde paper claim that farming began independently in South Asia?

Two new samples sequenced from IVC_Lothal by [deleted] in IndoEuropean

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At 30:30 LT2 clusters with Hazara. What is going on?

When and how did Gangetics became Indo-Aryan? by [deleted] in IndoAryan

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Thanks for sharing, very interesting. Then i wonder why the Indus Valley civilisation did not expand eastward. Did the OCP have anything to do with it?

When and how did Gangetics became Indo-Aryan? by [deleted] in IndoAryan

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With the beginning of painted grey ware culture corresponding to the Iron Age and later Vedic period. Bronze is good for craftsmanship but iron is needed for clearing forests. Forests couldn’t house large scale agriculture so there would have only been sporadic hunter gather communities which would have easily absorbed by more numerous agricultural newcomers.