The narrow, dusty road, typical of small-town India, belies the importance of the place to which it leads — the archaeological site of Rakhigarhi. A plaque here reads that it is the largest site of the Harappan culture. Of these, a woman, roughly 4,600 years old, has created a buzz among those who work in history, anthropology, genomics, and linguistics. It also says that there was no Steppe Pastoral gene (from people in Central Asia) in the Rakhigarhi woman. This finding has fanned the debate on the so-called Aryan migration to India, part of the history books of many generations of Indians.

Source: The Hindu May 11, 2024 22:02 UTC