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[QUOTE]Originally posted by Quetzalcoatl: [QB] [QUOTE]Originally posted by Clyde Winters: [ Millet was probably cultivated over [b]5000 years ago[/b]. The earliest sites for the cultivation of millet lie in the Sahara . Here the earliest archaeological evidence has been found for African millets. The major grain exploited by Saharan populations was rice ,the yam and pennisetum. McIntosh and McIntosh (1988) has shown that the principal domesticate in the southern Sahara was bulrush millet (pennisetum). Millet impressions have been found on Mande ceramics from both Karkarchinkat in the Tilemsi Valley of Mali, and Dar Tichitt in Mauritania between [b]4000 and 3000 BP[/b]. (McIntosh & McIntosh 1983a,1988; Winters 1986b; Andah 1981) [/QUOTE]These dates contradict each other. [QUOTE] In summary, population pressure in the Sahara during a period of increasing hyperaridity forced hunter/gather/fisher Proto-Dravidian people to first domesticate animals and then crops. The linguistic evidence discussed above indicate that the Proto-Dravidians migrated out of Africa to Harappan sites with millet, yam and rice already recognized as principal domesticated crop. . [/QB][/QUOTE]Animal domestication took place a long time before 4000 BP and a long way from Dar Tichitt. The claim is that about 3500 years ago the Proto-Dravidians migrated from Dar Tichitt in Mauritania all the way to India and did not show anyone else on the way how to cultivate millet. Right. I've think we have already been through the genetics, but exactly what genetic markers do the Mande and Dravidians share? [/QB][/QUOTE]
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