‘Indus Valley settlers had a distinct genetic lineage’
Throwing fresh light on the Indus Valley Civilisation, a study of DNA
from skeletal remains excavated from the Harappan cemetery at Rakhigarhi
argues that the hunter-gatherers of South Asia, who then became a
settled people, have an independent origin. The researchers who
conducted the study contend that the theory of the Harappans having
Steppe pastoral or ancient Iranian farmer ancestry thus stands refuted.
The finding also negates the hypothesis about mass migration during
Harappan times from outside South Asia, they argue.