Michael Witzel
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The Jats and Indo-Aryan expansion in South Asia
The author argues that the high steppe ancestry of Haryanvi and western UP Jats reflects their location in the Vedic Kuru heartland, quoting Michael Witzel, and not later Indo-Scythian migration,…
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Why I don’t accept the para-Munda hypothesis
The author rejects Michael Witzel’s idea that a Munda-like language dominated the Indus and Gangetic plains, arguing from language, Y-chromosome and ancient DNA that the Munda arrived from Southeast Asia…
