Bronze Age Chariot Warriors: The Sintashta Culture
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hNdLXKtWg3A
The reason horses couldn't pull solid wheeled vehicles in 2000 BC was because the Sintashta horse breed had only just been developed to be strong enough to pull the chariots they invented. It would take thousands of years of further selective breeding for horses to be big and strong enough to pull solid wheel carts and wagons.
The horse DNA study shows that horses were domesticated on the steppe and perfected by the Sintashta horse breeders. They were then exported throughout Eurasia as the descendants of the Sintashta spread them and chariot technology into India, Iran, the middle east and Europe.
And it does matter that the only people who believe the Rig Veda is older is Hindu Nationalists, of course it does. More objective scholars without an agenda do not push the dates back so far. It's clear that the proponents of the Out of India hypothesis will twist evidence for their own ends. It's a shame, i don't think they have any need to feel bad that some of their ancestors and beliefs originate a little further to the northwest. It doesn't make them any less "Indian" just because they came from beyond modern India.
The reason horses couldn't pull solid wheeled vehicles in 2000 BC was because the Sintashta horse breed had only just been developed to be strong enough to pull the chariots they invented. It would take thousands of years of further selective breeding for horses to be big and strong enough to pull solid wheel carts and wagons.
The horse DNA study shows that horses were domesticated on the steppe and perfected by the Sintashta horse breeders. They were then exported throughout Eurasia as the descendants of the Sintashta spread them and chariot technology into India, Iran, the middle east and Europe.
And it does matter that the only people who believe the Rig Veda is older is Hindu Nationalists, of course it does. More objective scholars without an agenda do not push the dates back so far. It's clear that the proponents of the Out of India hypothesis will twist evidence for their own ends. It's a shame, i don't think they have any need to feel bad that some of their ancestors and beliefs originate a little further to the northwest. It doesn't make them any less "Indian" just because they came from beyond modern India.
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