For those wondering about the timing of Indus Valley civilization and the reasons for its decline.
(Our text books and articles and historians still attribute the arrival of "Aryans" who conquered the Harappans!)😂
Just to share what i learnt and hoping it may get u interested
The tweets will be addressing with scientific evidence
1. When did the actual IVC start (earliest date as per evidence) 2. How did it flourish 3. Why did it decline
I have added the references alongside.
If i have made any mistakes, pls correct
The beginnings
Using oxygen isotope studies and optically stimulated luminescence (OSL) dating of pottery from various cultural levels of Bhirrana - Harappan site, Haryana the earliest level has provided mean 14C age of 8597 to 8171 years before present.
I have developed a new found interest in human migration with special emphasis on Indian civilization of late.
After reading and understanding many articles published in this field – I am summarising my observations
and posing a few questions hoping that some of you would be able to answer or correct me if I am wrong. Hope you like this..
The understanding of ancestry & human migration is based on studying the mitochondrial DNA from the skeletal remains from excavations.
2/n
The beauty of mitochondrial DNA, also called maternal DNA since it is derived from mother alone. The sequence of mt DNA stays the same over generations, and thus is a useful tool for looking at maternal ancestry. DNA is an alphabet soup made up of 4 letters - A,G,C,T
Study well if you're in college - don't divorce ur dharma.
Get into the posts which will ensure that you will forge young minds in the right direction
Strentghen the position of Hindus and Nation in the world
Stay away from the disease I.e. "woke"!
Become lawyers n judges - we need good Patriotic lawyers in our nation to strengthen judiciary.
Get into Administration by clearing UPSC etc - to give tougher administration ensure that Urban Naxals and Internal terrorists are neutered!
Also urge u to get into Education system-
This is one area where we HINDUS and dharmic ppl r faltering - increasing number of professors n lecturers r running Leftist n anti-national propaganda to brainwash our young minds.
They have sowed the seeds of "Naxalism" wch is reaping benefits in name of Shaheen Bagh today!
In the research titled
"A Bayesian phylogenetic study of the Dravidian language family"
- researchers have tried to date the language using Bayesian analysis .
For those of you not aware - method of statistical inference in which Bayes' theorem is used to update
the probability for a hypothesis as more evidence or information becomes available.
It combines prior existing info with evidence from info in a sample to guide the statistical inference.
The study has some shortcomings
They have used the Swadesh 100 list
Many countries have been in full or partial lockdown since February with a forecast of it to continue for several months. Economy has fallen everywhere, man’s spirit is battered and still we are fighting against this deadly virus.
If you notice, mankind has seen worst pandemics in the last 20 years – SARS, Avian flu, Swine flu, MERS-CoV, Ebola and now Corona. Add to this, new and emerging diseases like KFD, Chikungunya, Nipah, Lassa etc. What could be the reason?
The lesson from this allegory has wide spread applications & interpretations in the current day but I would like to apply it to the existential crisis of Hindus in this 21st century!
The story goes like this –
Imagine a group of prisoners in a underground cave who have been chained there since they were kids and they are tied in such a way that they can’t move. All they can see is in front of them – the back wall of the cave with the entrance behind them.