{"id":100373,"date":"2017-07-28T07:45:53","date_gmt":"2017-07-28T15:45:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/gnxp.nofe.me\/?p=188835"},"modified":"2017-07-28T07:45:53","modified_gmt":"2017-07-28T15:45:53","slug":"the-indo-aryan-migration-to-the-indian-subcontinent","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.razib.com\/wordpress\/2017\/07\/28\/the-indo-aryan-migration-to-the-indian-subcontinent\/","title":{"rendered":"The Indo-Aryan migration to the Indian subcontinent"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The <a href=\"http:\/\/indiatoday.intoday.in\/story\/vedic-aryan-race-genetics-dna-europe-indians-europe-caspian\/1\/1012041.html\">piece is up at<\/a> <em>India Today<\/em>. The headline and title are of course optimized for clicks. I would, for example, say that the Indo-Aryans came from the west, not the West.<\/p>\n<p>In the course of writing this it has become clear that many people have very specific commitments on this issue. I think it is clear I do not. Genetic inference methods have <b>wide shoulders of confidence in particular dates.<\/b> So I&#8217;ll leave it to those with more archaeological knowledge to argue over specific date. But it strikes me that the dates point to a likelihood that much of the expansion and diversification of Indo-Aryans may precede their expansion into the Gangetic plain ~1500 BCE, the date preferred by many scholars.<\/p>\n<p>Apparently we shouldn&#8217;t have to wait too long for ancient DNA from Rakighari (months, not years). But I doubt that will settle anything, as opposed to being preliminary and setting off new debates.<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"a2a_button_facebook\" href=\"https:\/\/www.addtoany.com\/add_to\/facebook?linkurl=https%3A%2F%2Fgnxp.nofe.me%2F2017%2F07%2F28%2Fthe-indo-aryan-migration-to-the-indian-subcontinent%2F&amp;linkname=The%20Indo-Aryan%20migration%20to%20the%20Indian%20subcontinent\" title=\"Facebook\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" ><\/a><a class=\"a2a_button_twitter\" href=\"https:\/\/www.addtoany.com\/add_to\/twitter?linkurl=https%3A%2F%2Fgnxp.nofe.me%2F2017%2F07%2F28%2Fthe-indo-aryan-migration-to-the-indian-subcontinent%2F&amp;linkname=The%20Indo-Aryan%20migration%20to%20the%20Indian%20subcontinent\" title=\"Twitter\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" ><\/a><a class=\"a2a_button_google_plus\" href=\"https:\/\/www.addtoany.com\/add_to\/google_plus?linkurl=https%3A%2F%2Fgnxp.nofe.me%2F2017%2F07%2F28%2Fthe-indo-aryan-migration-to-the-indian-subcontinent%2F&amp;linkname=The%20Indo-Aryan%20migration%20to%20the%20Indian%20subcontinent\" title=\"Google+\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" ><\/a><a class=\"a2a_dd addtoany_share_save\" href=\"https:\/\/www.addtoany.com\/share#url=https%3A%2F%2Fgnxp.nofe.me%2F2017%2F07%2F28%2Fthe-indo-aryan-migration-to-the-indian-subcontinent%2F&amp;title=The%20Indo-Aryan%20migration%20to%20the%20Indian%20subcontinent\" data-a2a-url=\"https:\/\/gnxp.nofe.me\/2017\/07\/28\/the-indo-aryan-migration-to-the-indian-subcontinent\/\" data-a2a-title=\"The Indo-Aryan migration to the Indian subcontinent\"><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The piece is up at India Today. The headline and title are of course optimized for clicks. I would, for example, say that the Indo-Aryans came from the west, not the West. In the course of writing this it has become clear that many people have very specific commitments on this issue. I think it [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[786,482],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-100373","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-india-genetics","category-indian-genetics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.razib.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/100373","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.razib.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.razib.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.razib.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.razib.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=100373"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.razib.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/100373\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":100375,"href":"https:\/\/www.razib.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/100373\/revisions\/100375"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.razib.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=100373"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.razib.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=100373"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.razib.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=100373"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}