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From: sarima@netcom.com (Stanley Friesen)
Subject: Re: What are Scythians?
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Date: Thu, 24 Nov 1994 06:15:49 GMT
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In article <hubey.785560259@pegasus.montclair.edu>,
H. M. Hubey <hubey@pegasus.montclair.edu> wrote:
>
>This area still seems to be southeastern Turkey and not further south.
>If Anatolia was the home of the IE's as Gamkrelidze suggests then
>there'd be more of them around Sumeria and they should not have 
>bypassed it.

True, which is why it seems more likely that the Indo-Aryans were the
Andronovo peoples, and came into the area from the north, around
the Caspian Sea, from the eastern Late Yamna.

>Meanwhile, they seem to have overrun Iran and the
>Harappans so it seems to be that their origin would have been
>closer to those regions so that they'd have enough massed power
>to overwhelm them. 
>
They only "overran" the Harappans long after they were severely
weakend from within, and already virtually destroyed.
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