Indo-Aryans, the Rigveda, and a World on the Move
Tides of History
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The Indo Ironian Speech Community and Archaeological Cultures
Anthropologists have shown us that identity is mutable and complicated. Sometimes language is the defining feature of a group's identity, sometimes it doesn't matter at all. The first major correlation we can draw is with the sintashta culture which flourished around two thousand b c in the southern stretches of the ura mountains and the northern steps of kosakstan. This was an expansive group of people, one that was highly connected to the broader world. Seen tash to style sets of chariot gear show up and graves all the way into jikistan.
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