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There is a theory ancient black West Africans traveled the whole world . . . |
Posted on 05/10/2007 9:30:24 AM PDT by SunkenCiv
The National Museum in New Delhi is one of the richest storehouses of India's cultural and scientific heritage. Among the prehistoric and protohistoric objects displayed in the very first gallery in the Museum's ground floor, there is a bronze figure from Mohenjo-daro (now in Pakistan). Made in circa 2500 B.C., it is an image of a naked young girl in a dancing pose. Though the figure's height is only 10.8 cms., it tells us a lot about the metal technology that was developed in the Indus Valley Civilization, also called the Harappan Culture. The bronze Dancing Girl from Mohenjo-daro is the most outstanding item among the objects displayed in the gallery. It is the first sculpture in dancing gesture discovered in the Indian subcontinent. It is also one of the earliest cast bronzes in this cultural area. But its most interesting aspect is that in casting it the Harappan metallurgists used an advanced technique known as the lost-wax (cire perdue) process... The features of the unclad body of the dancing girl show her to be that of the Proto-Australoid type which, perhaps, constituted a segment of the mixed Harappan society. The concept of Proto-Shiva also appears to be the contribution of the Indus Valley Civilization.
(Excerpt) Read more at vigyanprasar.gov.in ...
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The picture of the dancing girl bronze reminds me of African Tribal women I have seen on the Discover Channel etc., they had rings on their arms and necks.
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There is a theory ancient black West Africans traveled the whole world . . . |
I'm tired but I'll do one just for you.
Most Europeans can trace their roots to northern India/Pakistan. This is a map of the predominant male lines in Europe, R1a & R1b. 90% of the Irish and Spanish are R1b and all other Europeans are 68% R1b.
“...Then, the whole Indus civilisation was wiped out by the invasions of the ancestors of the present-day Indians, or were they displaced to Australia?...”
They were, evidently, wiped out by prolonged severe drought, occasioned by cometary or bolide impact. Blam or SunkenCiv can fill you in on this.
wow.. this must have been before they invented sandwiches
...wrong thread, never mind.
Cheers!
I didn't notice, did *she* have an Adam's Apple too?
Bad whiskers! Bad Kitty!
Could be Australasian, which I think sourced out of Madagascar. It is actually more of a language group I think than a definitive ethnic/genetic group. There are descendants of the language group all over the place who vary radically genetically and phenotypically.
Could be. Maybe. It has been a while since I stayed at a Holiday Inn.
The lighter-skinned Aryans conquered India about 2000 BC, and took over from the darker-skinned people that were there before them. This is the origin of the caste system, where those who are mostly Aryan occupy the top caste, then are various mixes, and at the bottom, the Dalits, the "untouchables", are genetically close to the original conquered people
Something like how in Mexico and South America you have upper classes being mostly European ancestry, and the lower classes being mostly native ancestry
There was climate change involved, but the Indus Valley civilization was overrun; the Aryan invasion is denied today of course, for political reasons, but they came from Central Asia, and left due to some kind of climate change. Similar, later movements from Central Asia, but into Europe, are well known.
Thanks! The Indus settlements are one of the big enigmas of mankind.
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