New paper in Science magazine concludes that "Indo-European" languages emerged 8k years ago i.e. 3k years before earlier linguistic theories. It also suggests southern origin in Middle East 1/n
science.org.
science.org.
While this does not prove it, this perfectly fits my view that IE culture belongs to a continuum from north India to Iran and eastern Turkey (made this point in Ocean of Churn). AIT and OIT both miss the point. 2/n
This is not thundering war-chariots going in either direction but Neolithic bands migrating across grasslands, both ways, from North India through Baluchistan to Iran and beyond (ie Baluchistan was wetter than today, that is key). 3/n
The only definite war-chariot migrants were the Mitanni who were almost certainly from India..... but this is just 3.5k years ago when IE culture was already well established in Indo-Iranian continuum. 4/n
The reason there are so few war chariot wallahs migrating is blatantly obvious. Chariots are useless except in completely flat terrain (Haryana, Iraq etc). If ever some Aryans from steppes tried to come to India, they would have abandoned their chariots in Tajikistan. 5/n
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