[INDOLOGY] INDOLOGY Digest, Vol 29, Issue 18

[Sam Grimes]

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> Date: Tue, 16 Jun 2015 15:43:46 -0700
> From: Luis Gonzalez-Reimann <reimann at berkeley.edu>
> To: indology at list.indology.info
> Subject: Re: [INDOLOGY] Article about the politics surrounding
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> Dear all,
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> As part of this thread, the clear differences between the IVC and the
> culture of the /Rg Veda/ have been briefly mentioned. Veeranarayana
> Pandurangi brought up another issue, the genetic evidence regarding the
> entrance of peoples into India during the Rgvedic period. He attached an
> article (Metspalu et al.) which, he said, "disproves the influx of
> people into India."
>
> In a new article called "Population Genomics of Bronze Age Eurasia
> (Allentoft et al.)," published in /Nature/ only five day ago, the
> authors conclude that their "analyses support that migrations during the
> Early Bronze Age is a probable scenario for the spread of Indo-European
> languages." This goes in the opposite direction of the article by
> Metspalu et al., and gives strong genetic support to the notion of an
> influx into the Sub Continent between 3000-1000 BCE. The authors of the
> new article used a very large data set for their study.
>
> Here is the abstract.
>
> The Bronze Age of Eurasia (around 3000?1000 BC) was a period of major
> cultural changes. However, there is debate about whether these changes
> resulted from the circulation of ideas or from human migrations,
> potentially also facilitating the spread of languages and certain
> phenotypic traits. We investigated this by using new, improved methods
> to sequence low-coverage genomes from 101 ancient humans from across
> Eurasia. We show that the Bronze Age was a highly dynamic period
> involving large-scale population migrations and replacements,
> responsible for shaping major parts of present-day demographic structure
> in both Europe and Asia. Our findings are consistent with the
> hypothesized spread of Indo-European languages during the Early Bronze
> Age. We also demonstrate that light skin pigmentation in Europeans was
> already present at high frequency in the Bronze Age, but not lactose
> tolerance, indicating a more recent onset of positive selection on
> lactose tolerance than previously thought.
>
> And this is the link to the article:
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> http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v522/n7555/pdf/nature14507.pdf
>
> Luis Gonzalez-Reimann
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