From: Marc Washington <best@mail.datanet.hu>
Date: Sun, Sep 9, 2012 at 9:52 PM
Subject: [Mwananchi] * From 5000 BC: AfrIndia - India part of the Prehistoric African Cultural Sphere
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Four classes of artefacts as seen below may indicate a movement of Africans to India from 5000 BC (though Austronesian and Indian populations from tens of thousands of years ago point to even earlier migrations from Africa to India):
FIGURINE FEATURES: 1) Both figurine wear heavy necklaces, 2) have pellet breasts, 3) arms outstretched, parallel to ground, 4) pubic triangles both with circles around triangular area, 5) tapered footless legs, 6) Handless arms, 7) hair bun on top of head.
AFRO COMBS: From Naqada almost 6000 years ago was excavated one of the world's earliest combs [1C]. Made throughout African Neolithic history to the present-day,the same type of evenly-spaced tooth comb [2C] is found in the Indus Valley over 1000 years later.
FISH HOOKS: As with the Afro picks in C, the bone harpoons found in the Sudan of 7000 bc [1B] are found thousands of years later in the Indus Valley [2B] as evidence of the demic movement of people from Africa to the Indus Valley.
ROCK ART: Not only does Indian cattle rock art of 5000 bc [2A] find precedent in African cattle rock art (same scale, subjects, crayons) of the Sudan of 7800 bc [1A] but rock etchings of millenniums later found in Africa also came at a later phase to India. African rock art likewise & earlier features the slender black, brown, and red human figures found in Indian rock art [2A].These show demic movement.
The Stanford Science Daily quotes Peter Underhill writing of the need to abandon the mono-disciplinary genetic theories still among us in reconstructing the past in favor of multi-disciplinary studies: "The recovery of history is really a jigsaw puzzle," said Peter Underhill, PhD, senior research scientist in the Department of Genetics. "You have to look at genetics, material culture (archeological findings), linguistics and other areas to find different lines of evidence that reinforce each other." IN: Overlapping Genetic And Archaeological Evidence Suggests Neolithic Migration, Science Daily, Stanford University Medical Center, Issue of 11 Sep. 2002.
Dr. Winters has presented both genetic and linguistic evidence showing African origins of the Dravidians. With the other jigsaw pieces Peter Underhill speaks of needed to complete a picture (if one did indeed exist) the present page adds items found in the Indus Valley cultural toolkit with precedents in Africa. Together it is a near fact that these similarities (figurine, Afro combs, fish hooks and harpoons, cattle rock art) are not due to chance and do indeed speak of a middle Neolitihc demic movement from Africa to India.
Nearly 400 pages of worldwide African (black) history before Columbus, before the West, and before Christ from:
http://www.beforebc.org/AfricanaResources/AfricanaResources/index.of.pages.html
Marc Washington
Budapest, Hungary
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