Indian anthropology?
Deep common ancestry of Indian and western-Eurasian mitochondrial DNA lineages.
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/10574762
Kivisild T, Bamshad MJ, Kaldma K, Metspalu M, Metspalu E, Reidla M, Laos S, Parik J, Watkins WS, Dixon ME, Papiha SS, Mastana SS, Mir MR, Ferak V, Villems R.
Department of Evolutionary Biology, Tartu University, Tartu, 51010, Estonia.
About a fifth of the human gene pool belongs largely either to Indo-European or Dravidic speaking people inhabiting the Indian peninsula. The ‘Caucasoid share’ in their gene pool is thought to be related predominantly to the Indo-European speakers. A commonly held hypothesis, albeit not the only one, suggests a massive Indo-Aryan invasion to India some 4,000 years ago [1]. Recent limited analysis of maternally inherited mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA) of Indian populations has been interpreted as supporting this concept [2] [3]. Here, this interpretation is questioned. We found an extensive deep late Pleistocene genetic link between contemporary Europeans and Indians, provided by the mtDNA haplogroup U, which encompasses roughly a fifth of mtDNA lineages of both populations. Our estimate for this split is close to the suggested time for the peopling of Asia and the first expansion of anatomically modern humans in Eurasia [4] [5] [6] [7] [8] and likely pre-dates their spread to Europe. Only a small fraction of the ‘Caucasoid-specific’ mtDNA lineages found in Indian populations can be ascribed to a relatively recent admixture.
PMID: 10574762 [PubMed - indexed for MEDLINE]
There are cultural connections or parallels between India and proto-Celtic societies besides the DNA evidence. The similarities between the division of class are striking. The functions of the druids and the Brahmans were remarkably close. I have wondered if the rigidness of the British class system before the twentieth system was not a weak reflection of what gave rise to the caste system in India. In India lighter skin was reflective of higher caste from what I understood, which makes sense if the Indo- European invaders were white. Incidentally, I should of said my anthropology professor from India, and not the Indian anthropology professor.