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The Horse, the Wheel, and Language

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Vedic-Aryan Migration Debate

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Book-length archaeological-linguistic synthesis for wider steppe and Indo-European dispersal models; use as a comparative model, not as a substitute for South Asian site-level evidence.

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Genetic, linguistic, and historiographic sources support a broad model of post-Mature-Harappan movement and interaction from the northwest, while route, scale, timing, and language-transfer mechanisms remain inferential.

The evidence from multiple fields converges on migration and mixture, but the fine details remain debated.
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A northwest migration-and-interaction model is better supported across the listed linguistic, genetic, and comparative sources than either a simple violent invasion or a no-migration conclusion.

Answer / theory: Some form of migration and interaction from the northwest is the strongest current model. What supports it: Linguistics, Indo-Iranian parallels, and steppe-related ancestry in later South Asians. What is weak or disputed: Exact route, scale, and mechanism. Evidence level: Strong Evidence for broad migration, Mixed Evidence for exact details.
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