The Rakhigarhi Project: What Lies Beneath?

in archaeology •  6 years ago 

Researchers at a burial site. IMAGE

Has it confirmed the Aryan Migration Theory? Read, You'll soon know.

At 550 hectares, Harappan site located at Rakhigarhi, in Haryana, is the biggest one yet, twice the size of Mohenjodaro. In terms of time-scale, it goes back 5500 BC.

The data, when compared to the modern population, has more affinity with the ancestral south Indian tribal population than the north Indian population.

The study confirms the commonsense notion that the Harappan and Rigvedic cultures are two distinct lines, one replacing the other, with elements of gradual mixing. Harappan people didn't magically vanish into thin air; they went back to living a more basic economy; their tradition of knowledge too went into hibernation.

In India, it has been insisted for a long, long time that Arya Samaj (Aryan Society) and Vedic Culture emerged from a local, autochthonous strand or out of India's womb, so to speak, while everything in historical linguistics and archaeology strongly suggested just the opposite.

The loaded and politicized Aryan Invasion Theory has been refined in scholarship by 1970s into Aryan Migration. In technical language, it is called, "Large-scale genetic pressure from Steppe groups in the second millennium BC"*.

References

We Are All Harappans

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