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Jean-François Jarrige Quotes

1940–2014 France

Jean-François Jarrige (August 5, 1940, Lourdes – November 18, 2014, Paris) was a French archaeologist specializing in South Asian archaeology and Sindhology. He held a doctorate from the University of Paris in oriental archaeology.

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Phoenix-like, the theory of the invaders, preferably Indo-Europeans, always rises from its ashes.

Michel Danino - The Invasion That Never Was (2004)

From the Neolithic time till almost today there has never been, in spite of spectacular changes in the course of time, a definite gap or break in the history of the subcontinent.

Nothing, in the present state of archaeological research ... enables us to reconstruct convincingly invasions that could be clearly attributed to Aryan groups.

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