Ait

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Talking about “AIT vs OIT” in the current year is like talking “Keynes vs Hayek” in 2024.

These are both very broad and dated “narratives”, while the science has advanced to much more precise questions:

• What were the culture, language of the IVC?
• Where and when did steppe autosomal DNA enter the Indian genome?
• Where and when did the R1a Y-haplogroup enter the Indian genome? Was it already present in IVC?
• Northern vs Southern Arc
• When was RV composed?

In some sense the AIT is an “accidental discovery”, because its original motivations are actually false:

• Civilization was not introduced to India from the Steppe
• The “Caucasoid phenotype” was not introduced to India from the Steppe, plenty of Telugus with <10% Steppe ancestry have it.
• Iranians migrated to Iran from Afg/Punjab, not the other way around.

Possibly other such “motivations”, like “IVC has no horses/weapons, is urban unlike Rig-Vedic people” will also be shown to be wrong.

But none of this matters to actual object-level questions like why Indians have an excess of Steppe ancestry compared to the IVC.