Guest guest Posted January 1, 2003 Report Share Posted January 1, 2003 As of now, methinks, we can put an end to many fruitless discussions: such as about Pt. Frawley's Vedic, Stone Age kingdom in the Gangetic basin at 10,000 BCE --mother of all civilizations on the planet--, or about Dr. Wells', by now genetically proven immigration of speakers of Dravidian, also at 10,000 BCE. Russian scientists (or more correctly, their Turkish-speaking Bashkir compatriots) have done us this great service! However, the important news item has unfortunately been overlooked by all avid internet citizens, so active on this and other Indian lists. Thanks to god(s), my attention was drawn to it a few days ago and I can share with you here. The discovery has been published in the Russian newspaper of Soviet fame, Pravda. Its name implies (nyet, it has always implied) "Truth": http://english.pravda.ru/main/2002/04/30/28149.html In short: natural scientists of the Bashkir State University have discovered --in the Urals, remember: the home of the Aryans!-- a hoary civilization that used ultra-modern technology, space based three-dimensional mapping, and air transport and thus had no need for roads -- 120 million ( 1200,00 000 ) years ago... This scintillating discovery, supported by Chinese and American natural scientists, should put to rest all those useless, never-ending discussions by supremacist, Eurocentric etc. p.p. Indologists about an Aryan invasion, or the truly patriotic Bha_rati_ya debate about a lost and found Sarasvati_ River, or the submersive Dravidianist seperatists' idea of a lost Southern Continent off kanyakumArI (Lemuria), or even the anthropologists'/geneticists' new tale of recent, just 6 mill. to 150K b.p., human origins in Africa... Jiivatv anusandhaanam! A happy and fruitful 2003, MW ============================================================ Michael Witzel Department of Sanskrit & Indian Studies, Harvard University 2 Divinity Avenue, Cambridge MA 02138, USA ph. 1- 617-496 2990 (also messages) home page: http://www.people.fas.harvard.edu/~witzel/mwpage.htm Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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