Intro
Ethnic shifts provide important context for development of later social organizations.
Initial peopling
- First came early hominids such as H.heidelbergensis from around 250,000-300,000 years BP.
- Indian hunter gatherers came next.
- Then the iranian-farmer-invasion
- Then, Aryan migration/ invasion
- Then, Austro-Asiatic incursion
- dravidian-bloom
- Great Indo Aryan consolidations
Islamic invasions
- Finally, during the Islamic invasions, we get some Turkik input.
- These seem to have left comparatively little genetic footprints even among muslims. Partly because they are genetically very similar to the earlier Aryan influx - albeit more admixed with Turkik markers. “Detectable ancestry - probably less than 10%, closer to 1%.” - RK