Originally posted by: return_to_hades
When I was in school, we were taught the Aryan invasion theory. Whether it was an invasion or migration, it seemed to make sense that there were waves of population movement from Europe.
So I'm curious, how and why did people start challenging this theory? How did it come about? Did people find evidence that debunked AIT/AMT or did they want to debunk AIT/AMT and seek evidence to debunk it? Why do some folks seem to be strongly opposed to AIT/AMT?
Probably to prove that Haplogroup R (Y-DNA) [Steppe aka Aryan] were the first migrants to the Indian subcontinent, not Haplogroup L or H (Y-DNA) [Dravidian]. (?) The latest discovery proved that the people of the Indus Valley had no steppe DNA. Also, some steppe groups were known for their brutality.
Anyway, we are all migrants. Eurasia didn't belong to Sapiens. We walked out of Africa, interbred with Denisovans, Neanderthals and still-unknown humans, drove them to extinction and took over their continent. Annihilation of native species and taking over their land - isn't that invasion?
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