Joe Shearer
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An interesting read:-
https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com...sation-iit-kharagpur/articleshow/63776710.cms
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This matches the genetic evidence and the archaeological evidence pretty closely.
- The IVC probably lasted only until 1300 BC, in archaeological terms. This is very approximate.
- This study says 1450 BC; not millions of years away. This is rather more accurate, though not hugely accurate in the overall scheme of things.
- The genetic study shows that the admixture of IVC dweller, steppe migrant and the hunter-gatherers of the peninsula occurred around 1500 BC.
- In other words, the migrants had little or no influence on the IVC.
- How the IIT KGP analysts concluded that "These displaced people gradually migrated towards the Ganga-Yamuna valley towards eastern and central UP; Bihar and Bengal in the east; MP, south of Vindhyachal and south Gujarat in the south" is not clear.
- It isn't relevant; the genetic study shows the same thing, through irrefutable evidence. It makes no mention of Bihar and Bengal, however, nor of MP.
What the IIT KGP professors did not mention, perhaps partly because it is so obvious, is that all of the IVC dwellers did not migrate; some remained behind to form the core population of those areas in later years.