[INDOLOGY] "How genetics is settling the Aryan migration debate"

[BG]

This is an interesting article. Thanks also to S. Palaniappan who 
signalled it yesterday.

Brendan Gillon


On 2017-06-17 10:50 AM, Dominik Wujastyk via INDOLOGY wrote:
> An interesting article in yesterday's /The Hindu/ about the latest 
> discoveries on the genetics of Indian populations:
>
>     "The thorniest, most fought-over question in Indian history is
>     slowly but surely getting answered: did Indo-European language
>     speakers, who called themselves Aryans, stream into India sometime
>     around 2,000 BC – 1,500 BC when the Indus Valley civilisation came
>     to an end, bringing with them Sanskrit and a distinctive set of
>     cultural practices? Genetic research based on an avalanche of new
>     DNA evidence is making scientists around the world converge on an
>     unambiguous answer: yes, they did."
>
>     Continue reading:
>     How genetics is settling the Aryan migration debate
>     <http://www.thehindu.com/sci-tech/science/how-genetics-is-settling-the-aryan-migration-debate/article19090301.ece?homepage=true> by
>     Tony Joseph (The Hindu, June 16 2017).
>
>
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> ​,​
> University of Alberta, Canada
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