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The mysterious fall of the largest of the world's earliest urban
civilizations nearly 4,000 years ago in what is now India, Pakistan,
Nepal and Bangladesh now appears to have a key culprit — ancient climate
change, researchers say.
"Until now, speculations abounded about the links between this
mysterious ancient culture and its life-giving mighty rivers," Giosan
said.
Now Giosan and his colleagues have reconstructed the landscape of the plain and rivers where this long-forgotten civilizationdeveloped. Their findings now shed light on the enigmatic fate of this culture.
"Our research provides one of the clearest examples of climate change leading to the collapse of an entire civilization," Giosan said.
Eventually, over the course of centuries, Harappans apparently fled
along an escape route to the east toward the Ganges basin, where monsoon
rains remained reliable.
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Yep pal i'm just now waiting for the Farmanas DNA result which will complete the death of the Arya'n hoax in a scientific manner.
ReplyDeleteI think due to the fall of SSC/IVC the accelaration of 1500b.c ANI-ASI admixture happened, there is also clear archaeological record of western SSC/IVC folks eastward shift to the G-Y basin at the same time of 1500b.c.!!.
I recently was surprised to find out that my paternal Haplogroup is R2(M124). I am trying to understand the migration pattern that led my Ashkenazi Jewish ancestors from India to Lithuania. It looks like this climatic event may have precipitated the beginning of the journey. Fascinating that they had established:
ReplyDelete-cities ordered into grids
-exquisite plumbing
-a more democratic society than Mesopotamia and Egypt
Hi Susan,
ReplyDeleteMost R2's in Europe(there aren't many) are Jewish. Some think it may be due to gypsy (Sinte, Roma) migration and admix. Jewish R2 haplotypes are split between old and new(there is a link on this blog on this topic: http://r2dnainfo.blogspot.in/2010/02/jews-of-haplogroup-r2.html). They are quite distant from Indian haplotypes compared to others. I believe R2 originated around Northern India/Afghanistan/Pakistan(not Central Asia).
There isn't any ancient DNA data available on the Indus Valley inhabitants as yet - it would be very interesting to know what haplogroup they belonged to.
BUT, what's really interesting is the connection between Sanskrit and Lithuanian. It is known that Lithuanian is so close to Sanskrit that Lithuanians can actually understand spoken Sanskrit pretty well - something even most modern Indian language speakers can't claim.
ReplyDeleteTell me are you RJ?
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ReplyDeleteThe article on this blog mentions that the 12 marker format
ReplyDelete"14-23-14-10-13-20-12-12-11-14-10-29", which my brother has, is about 4,200 years old. The comments mention that some gypsies are H and some R2 so the gypsy theory is certainly one possible explanation.
Interesting that Lithuanian and Sanskrit are so similar. I haven't found a meaning for my maiden name, Reibman/ Raibman, in German, Yiddish, Lithuanian, or Russian. I wonder if it correlates with a Sanskrit word.
Sounds similar with Ribhumaan- 'one who has strength' though its only my guess.
ReplyDeleteThank you, Nirjhar. Perhaps the Ribhumaan family traveled the Silk Road west.
ReplyDeletehttp://www.silkroadproject.org/tabid/177/defaul.aspx
Why not, who knows what kinds of unthinkable cats are hidden in the bag of unseen and unrecorded history! Which is quite vast also.
ReplyDeleteBut one thing is clear the Aryas of Aryadharma(Hinduism), Zoroastrianism, Jainism,Buddhism and the light from the middle east The Jews are the oldest,noble and peace loving people, long live the noble ones.
Dear friends,
ReplyDeleteI find that your blog is with scientific orientation and analyses the issues with logic.I am not able to accept the monsoon failure theory, and i am of the opinion that IVC never declined at all. These Indus excavation sites are Necropolises and have been wrongly identified as Metropolises.Kindly go through my counter points given below. Wish you all the best. Jeyakumar Ramasami
Counter point ---
This above mentioned Monsoon failure theory is a doubtful correlation. This Monsoon decline theory is absolutely fine,there is no objection to that theory at all. But, only problem is that this monsoon decline theory is being correlated to the fall of Indus Valley Civilization,which is a kind of illogical correlation.
This theory of " Monsoon Decline" is being stretched beyond a limit to accommodate the theory of "Harappan Decline". The Indus river is a perennial river and it doesn't dry up even in harsh summers because of the melting of glaciers. The river Indus supports nearly 18 crore people Pakistan even today. Could't it have supported a few thousand people 5000 years back? It looks like that there is some misinterpretation here.
Further, the research team is analysing about the sites on the banks of "Saraswathi River", which was supposed to be a seasonal river. But, concludes that IVC sites declined because of monsoon failure, which were on the banks of "Indus River", which is a perennial river. This research team needs fundamental lessons on geography before diving deep into ancient Indian History..
There is a possibility that IVC never declined at all. These Indus Valley excavation sites are looking deserted because these sites were used as grave yards from time immemorial by various occupants of these lands.These sites have been wrongly identified as Metropolises, whereas in reality they were only Necropolises. This wrong identification is the reason for confusion surrounding theories like this about IVC. Follow the below given link for detailed information.
-------- https://sites.google.com/site/induscivilizationsite/ Necropolis Theory ----
Jeyakumar Ramasami