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Lacking fullest data, there is, nonetheless, a growing consensus that Harappan culture is the result of indigenous cultural developments, with no “Mesopotamian” people or diffusions of Western inventions, by whatever means, needed to explain it.

— Jim G. Shaffer South Asian archaeology and the myth of Indo-Aryan invasions (2005)

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A diffusion or migration of a culturally complex ‘Indo-Aryan‘ people into South Asia is not described by the archaeological record.

Another aspect o f this regime is the important status of cattle as cultural wealth.

The Cultural Tradition and Paleoethnicity in South Asian Archaeology (1995)

A key to understanding the Indo-Gangetic cultural tradition's structure is its economic and cultural focus on cattle.

The Cultural Tradition and Paleoethnicity in South Asian Archaeology (1995)

The existing interpretative discussions postulating large-scale human “invasions” simply do not correlate with the physical, archaeological, or paleoanthropological, data.

South Asian archaeology and the myth of Indo-Aryan invasions (2005)

These emerging connections and relationships in the northern South Asian archaeological record indicate no significant cultural discontinuities.

The Cultural Tradition and Paleoethnicity in South Asian Archaeology (1995)

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