Tag Archives: Indus valley civilisation
Scientific fact? Not good enough to be true.
Last week in India: Two scientists who coauthored two papers, along with many others from India as well as abroad, have spoken out against the conclusions of those papers even as they refused to distance themselves from their findings. As … Continue reading
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Tagged Aryan migration, Caspian grasslands, Caspian steppes, caste system, European steppe, genomic analysis, haplogroup R1a1a, Harappan civilisation, Indo-Aryan migration, Indus valley civilisation, mitochondrial DNA, Rakhigarhi, Rig Veda, Saraswati river
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Ruins of the Sutlej avulsion paper’s coverage
Reporting on the new Indus civilisation study out of IIT-K and Imperial College London was an interesting experience because it afforded an opportunity to discover how the technical fields of sedimentology and hydrodynamics can help understand the different ways in … Continue reading
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Tagged fluviodeltaic morphodynamics, Ghaggar-Hakra palaeochannel, hydrodynamics, Indus river, Indus valley civilisation, river avulsion, science communication, science journalism, science writing, sedimentology, Sutlej river
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