Vedic Anatolia, 7500 B.C.

[Robert Zydenbos]

N. Ganesan wrote:
>
> S. Kak, On the classification of Indic languages,
> Annals of the Bhandarkar Oriental Research Institute, 75, p. 185-195,
> 1994
>
> Just before the Section 6. Conclusions:
> "The striking thing
> about the head is that it is clean shaven except for a long tuft at
> the top that looks strikingly similar in style to the zikhA that a
> student wore in the Vedic times. B. G. Siddharth [22] has taken this
> similarity to mean that this Anatolian civilization was Vedic. [...]
>
> Siddharth and Kak identify Anatolia of 7500 B.C. as Vedic
>  civilization. Any comments?

I suppose nothing was said about whether there are traces of the *Veda*
in that Vedic civilisation. :-)

RZ