Sarasvati (texts & arch.I)

Paul K. Manansala kabalen at MAIL.JPS.NET
Sun May 24 18:14:04 UTC 1998


  Michael Witzel <witzel at FAS.HARVARD.EDU>
wrote:


>
> As I said. -- But as for archaeological evidence for an immigration of a
> movable (groups of) tribes, that's tricky business. For example, even the
> highly invasive Huns (375 AD+ in Europe) had not been located
> archaeologically until some of their graves were found in Hungary a few
> years ago...

Yes, but evidence of Hun culture clearly matching the text
description is found outside of Europe.  Do we find Vedic culture outside
of India in pre-Harappan times?  Also, the Hun invasion is very clearly
spelled out in historical writings.  Not so, regarding the supposed invasion of
Vedic peoples.

Regards,
Paul Kekai Manansala





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