Brahman

BRAHMAN: THE DISCOVERY OF THE GOD OF ABRAHAM: M. M. NINAN
As recently as 1000 BC the Nubian-Dravidian connection, based on pottery samples, seems
definitive. The Indian archaeologist B.B. Lal believes that the Dravidians belonged to the C-Group.
C-Group people spread culture from Nubia into Arabia, Iran and India between 2300-1500 BC as
evidenced by the presence of Black-and-Red Ware (BRW).
Lal writes: "At Timos the Indian team dug up several megalithic sites of ancient Nubians which
bear an uncanny resemblance to the cemeteries of early Dravidians which are found all over
Western India from Kathiawar to Cape Comorin. The intriguing similarity extends from the
subterranean structure found near them. Even the earthenware ring-stands used by the
Dravidians and Nubians to hold pots were identical."
The C-Group people of Nubia, southern Egypt and Sudan are commonly called Kushites. Their
black and red pottery that has been found from the Sudan, across Southwest Asia and India to
China (Singh 1982). This BRW was used as early as the Amratian period (c.4000-3500 BC).
The C-group people - who we might call "Proto-Saharans" - maintained herds of cattle which
were used for sacrifice and food. Bovine skulls were used to decorate their graves
in archaeologically rich Sudan.(http://jandyongenesis.blogspot.com/2013/05/sudan-isarchaeologically-rich.html)
Many ancient C-Group people were agro-pastoral. They were the first to cultivate wild sorghum
and millet. These became staple grains in Egypt and were taken to Pakistan and India between
3000 and 1000 BC. The evidence indicates that all of the African domesticates arose north of the
equator and were introduced to the south relatively late. (Salas 2002)
Clyde A. Winters believes that the Dravidian speakers of C-Group took millet to India. B. B. Lal
contends that the Dravidians/Proto-Dravidians came from southern Egypt and Sudan. This
explains the darker complexion of the "Sudra." Lal also noted common burial practices
incorporating megaliths, circular rock enclosures and rock-hewn tombs.
The origin of genetic diversity found in South Asia is much older than 3,500 years when the Indo-
Aryans were supposed to have migrated to India. The Indo-Aryan migration theory was proposed
in mid-19th century by German linguist Max Muller. Muller suggested that 3,500 years ago, Indo-
European speakers from Central Asia introduced the Indo-European language family and the
caste system in India. However, genetic studies indicate that this is not the case. A study led by
scientists from the Centre for Cellular and Molecular Biology (CCMB) in Hyderabad, India
(published in American Journal of Human Genetics in December 2011) shows clearly that there
was no genetic influx 3,500 years ago.
The Proto-Dravidians apparently migrated from ancient Nubia across Arabia to India. The
oldest known civilization in Arabia was the Tihama culture which flourished on the coastal plain
along the Red Sea in present day Yemen. Rodolfo Fattovish believes that the Tihama civilization
originated in Nubia, exactly what Genesis 10 indicates. He also recognizes the societal
organization of chiefs in the Gash River region in Sudan (2,700-2,300 BC). Fattovich's
excavations in the Gash Delta demonstrated a clear relationship between the C-Group and
Kerma cultures in northern Nubia. His findings were confirmed by the Italian expedition to the
eastern Sudan of 2011.”
(http://www.academia.edu/2048304/_The_Archaeomalacological_Remains_Italian_Archaeologic
al_Expedition_to_the_Eastern_Sudan_)
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