
Indo-Aryans, the Rigveda, and a World on the Move
Tides of History
The Gondara Grave Culture
The gondata grave culture is a somewhat amorphoous label for a long archaeological sequence almost entirely defined by burials. Burials associated with this tradition in the late bronze and early iron ages have yielded ancient diane. These are the oldest current samples in the record to show that step pastoralist ancestry in south asia, thats strongly associated with the indo iranian languages. Some of the pottery found in settlement sites from this era has strong parallels with indis pottery of the integration era. So do other practices. This wasn't a straightforward importation and conservative clinging to old ethnic traditions from somewhere else. It's not a wholesale replacement of the prior inhabitants or the complete introduction of