cardemaister: > Indra and Northern Mesopotamia! > Witzel believes that a portion of the Aryan people migrated to the region now called Afghanistan and Pakistan, the Land of the Five Rivers, Bharatvarsh, where they composed the Vedas. They were a tribal and nomadic peoples living in the far reaches of Euro-Asia in hostile steppe lands.
According to Abbas Alizadeh, in "The Oxford Companion to Archaeology" Iran, or Eran, was the land of the Aryans (nobles) or Iranians, a branch of the Indo-European peoples, who, in a number of waves, emigrated from the steppes of Central Asia to Europe and the Near East during the second and first millennia B.C..." Work Cited: Michael Witzel, Professor of Sanskrit Harvard University, United States 'Autochthonous Aryans?' http://tinyurl.com/57hujf Read more: Subject: Speaking of Aryans Author: Willytex Newsgroups: alt.meditation.transcendental Date: January 25, 2004 http://tinyurl.com/yjknybs
