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In general, the books of RV level I (RV 4-6) are thoroughly South Asian and have reference to local climate, trees and animals. We therefore have to take them seriously at their word, and cannot claim that they belong just to Afghanistan.

— Michael Witzel

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I would not care, eg, if the IA-s could be shown to emerge from the proto-Masai culture of E-Africa.

Chicken and still later exports from India are absent in common Laurasan ritual.

The so-called ‘invasion’ of IA speakers is not (yet) visible in the archaeology.

Poets such as Śamyu Bārhapatasya 6.45.1, some early Kaṇvas (in book 8) [belong to the] Early Ṛgvedic level.

This word [Druhyu] means, literally, ‘the ones who seek to cheat’. Non-linguist as he is, Talageri missed a great chance for a ‘socio-ethnic’ study based on an etymology!

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