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[QUOTE]Originally posted by Swenet: [QB] [QUOTE]Originally posted by Tyrannohotep: You beat me to it. It goes to show you how far back extensive trade between these regions goes. [qb]It makes you wonder what other "unlikely" connections we might discover in the future.[/qb][/QUOTE]Yeah. Two things need to happen, as far as I'm concerned. They need to uncover new connections, some of which are already alluded to by genetic data. Indians have unexplained genetic closeness to Africans. Closeness that goes beyond Basal Eurasian. Secondly, academics need to pursue the leads that have already been uncovered. For instance, possible Bronze Age skeletal remains of Africans in the Indus Valley: [QUOTE]The human cranium from the Mature Harappan site of Chanhu-daro presents archaeologists with a unique funerary practice by the Indus peoples. While jar burials have been encountered in Early and Mature Harappan sites and continued into the Post-urban Jhukar culture, the Chanhu-daro cranium indicates it was a secondary burial. The cranium is not associated with postcranial bones of the original body. These had been disposed of elsewhere, possibly at a significant time prior to the insertion of the cranium into the jar. Anthropometric and morphological analyses indicate that the cranium belonged to a young female in relatively good health as based upon absence of skeletal and dental markers of a pathological nature. The manner of her death is unknown. [b]The hypothesis that the Chanhu-daro female was of African ancestry is supported by the results of comparative data from ten cranial-bearing from ancient and modern South Asia.[/b][/QUOTE][b]Were There Commercial Communications between Prehistoric Harappans and African Populations?[/b] https://file.scirp.org/pdf/AA20120400001_65541719.pdf Although I'm not convinced that it's easy to distinguish Indus Valley people from Africans using craniofacial analysis. Any skeletal analysis is not completely convincing IMO, because of that reason. Either way, there is a lot of room for improvement as you point out. [/QB][/QUOTE]
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