Ugra
Indian Neolithic, Bronze & Iron Ages, Mil-Aviation, Economics and Writing enthusiast
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The elephant in the room has an ant in its trunk Overlooked data from Tournebize et al. 2022 provides strong evidence to eliminate a foundational basis for the "Steppes ancestry b...
Chasing a chariot In this🧶, we look at an incident from the IVC archaeological corpus from 80 years ago. These events and artifacts have receded from public memory. So its worthwh...
Kriging & R1a-L657 Underhill (2014) produced a geostatistical grid for the y-haplo R1a-M780, the ancestor of L657 which is confined to the Indian subcontinent. The dataset was fro...
Śatapatha Brāhmaṇam - शतपथब्राह्मणम् On reading the SB as a practical guide, one can sense a host of realistic details that could have an archaeological dimension. A long pursuit...
Hanel et al. 2020 - Skin/eye color and ancestry Modern subcontinental populations (Indians, Sri Lankans, Bangladeshis, Pakistanis) are all majority CHG-like or Neolithic Iranian (...
This work (posted by @dxrsam_0) is a fascinating anthropological explanation of the primal power dynamics in the Rgveda. If you are an ancient history enthusiast, you must read it...
An Indo-Iranic-Dravidian conundrum noted by FC Southworth in 1979 - The disputed direction of borrowing in the AIT/AMT universe of a reflexive pronoun deeply embedded into the Dr...
Let's unpack the numbers in this statement from a genomic & mathematical perspective. Genetic punditry on Twitter needs to be STRONGLY blackpilled with heavy doses of radioactive s...
How archaeo evidence and metallurgical termini-technici of the Bronze Age is antagonistic to linguistic, genetic theories of a very late Indo-Iranian praxis (2000 BCE). I posit th...
In 2014, a naturalist and two historians posited a theory about a major zoological motif of the Indian subcontinent. ....that the Lion was a exotic alien brought to India around...
When the Babri Masjid was demolished in December 1992, an inscription was discovered in its ruins. It was taken into the Lucknow vaults of ASI, where it remains now. It was ana...
Kālidāsa, the famed poet & the emperor Vikramāditya have never been settled in historical tradition. Their dates (even historicity) remain a matter of conjecture and speculation B...