Ancient South Asia
Tides of History
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The Origins of Farming in the Fertile Crescentent
Ancient DNA suggests she was a member of an ancient group whose descendants now live all over central and South Asia. But when we look at the genes of later people living in the Indus Valley civilization, they're not directly related to that herding woman from the Zagros. This is especially complicated because the descendants of that Zagros woman's population did in fact expand into Central Asia. They introduced farming there and they lived there well into the Bronze Age. It was natural to assume that this same group had also gone further south to the Indus but we know that's not the case.
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