Aryan Invasion Theory - Publication - Vivekananda Kendra

VIVEKANANDA KENDRA PATRIKA ARYAN INVASION THEORY VOL-II
Furthermore, based on the linguistic, genetic, zooarchaeological and population
growth evidence, the coalescence of R1a1 in an ancestor common to many Indo-Aryans
and Slavs, probably occurred during the hunting-gathering era and there is evidence that
the close contact between the ancestors of Indo-Aryans and Slavs continued during the
sheep and cattle domestication, up to and including the nomadic pastoral age. Based on
this evidence, the major population expansion from the Indian sub-continent into Europe
appears to have come, before the age of cereal farming.
Also the patrilineal Y-Chromosome genetic marker Hg R1a1, that accompanied this
expansion, appears to be more than 100,000 years old, based on its relative high
frequency, diversity and wide distribution extending from the Balkans to the Bay of
Bengal. This estimated age, based on the reproductive rates of historical individuals, is
considerably older than the molecular ages calculated on the basis of mutation rates as
reported in the literature.
Introduction
The earliest evidence of Paleolithic
human presence in the Indo-Pakistani subcontinent
consists of stone implements
found in the Soan River Valley in northern
Pakistan. These tools appear to indicate the
presence of hominids in the sub-continent
as early as 200,000-400,000 years ago
(Qamar et al. 2002). However, according
to C. Renfrew, when W. Jones first spoke
of the early literature of India he had
absolutely no idea of the antiquity of Indian
civilization. For many years, the material
record did not go back much before the
time of King Ashoka in the 3rd century BC,
and the brief accounts of north India left
by the commentators upon Alexander the
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Great travels and conquests in the previous
century. It was in 1921 that the great
discovery of the Indus Valley civilization
was made, with the investigation of two of
its great cities at Mohenjodaro and
Harappa. This civilization was already
flourishing shortly after 3000 BC. Other
archaeological excavations in western
Pakistan have found evidence of the
cultivation of cereal crops such as barley,
einkorn, emmer and bread wheat preceding
6000 BC (Renfrew 1987: 183, 190).
Based on archaeological evidence, it is
generally accepted that the agriculture
originated in the Fertile Crescent of the
Near East about 12,000 years ago and that