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From: oser@hep.uchicago.edu (Scott Oser)
Subject: Re: Origin of Dravidian
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In article <31FE15B7.440B@sw.seisy.abb.se>,
	Harald Hammarstrm <hhammars@sw.seisy.abb.se> writes:
>I was taught in school that the dravidians, the dark.skinned people
>of southwestern india were the indigenous people of the indian
>peninsula. The
>peninsula itself had "floated" from africa and in a way created the
>himalayas.
>Now I've read about the nostratic theory where it is claimed that the
>homeland
>of the Elamo-Dravidian was northeastern Iran (or something like that).
>All this 
>suggests that they didn't come (directly) from Africa and that they
>weren't 
>dark skinned. People are dark-skinned in India, and if that's not a
>dravidian
>influence it could be austronesian or something else. Still I'm confused
>about
>this so please enlighten me, who were the dravidians ?

I should point out that India separated geographically from Africa
tens of millions of years before the first humans walked the planet.
The Dravidians certainly didn't come DIRECTLY from Africa (unless they
took a boat, that is).

Cheers,
Scott O.


