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Dr. Jai Maharaj posted:

In article <HINGD.447297$UI2.333040@fx18.iad>,
FBInCIAnNSATerroristSlayer <FBInCIAnNSATe...@yahoo.com> posted:

https://www.nationalgeographic.com.au/australia/four-thousand-years-ago-indians-landed-in-australia.aspx

Four Thousand Years Ago Indians Landed in Australia

By LULU MORRIS

A new study has confirmed India's early arrival in
Australia

Genetic evidence suggests that just over 4 millennia ago a
group of Indian travellers landed in Australia and stayed.
The evidence emerged a few years ago after a group of
Aboriginal men's Y chromosomes matched with Y chromosomes
typically found in Indian men. Up until now, the exact
details, though, have been unclear.

But Irina Pugach from the Max Planck Institute for
Evolutionary Anthropology may have recently solved the
thousand-year-old case. 4,000 years before the First Fleet
landed on our fair shores, Indian adventurers had already
settled and were accepted into the Indigenous Australian
culture.

By studying the single-nucleotide polymorphisms and their
patterns, Dr Pugach revealed a diverse tapestry of
ancestry, one different from the lineage of New Guineans or
the Philippines. The study found a pattern of SNPs that is
only found in Indian genetics, specifically the Dravidian
speakers from South India. Dr Pugach's results were
consistent with the Y-chromosome data found years earlier.
Using both results she calculated exactly when India
arrived in Australia.

Dr Pugach estimates this to be around 2217 BC. An
interesting time for both Australia and India. Indian
civilisation was just about formed and Australian culture
and wildlife were rearranging.

The Indus Valley civilisation (India) emerged between 2600
BC and 1900 BC. During this period, Indus Valley managed to
develop seaworthy boats, which they used to trade with
their neighbours: The Middle East. This new technology was
used to get to Australia.

There is evidence of a shift in technology that coincides
with the time Indians were thought to have arrived in
Australia. Indigenous Australians switched their
palaeolithic crude, stone tools, for neolithic refined
tools. Again around about the time India washed up in
Australia, the way food was collected and cooked changed,
particularly the preparation of the cycad nut. An important
source of food for early Australians, the cycad nut is
quite toxic until the toxins are drawn out. The indigenous
method always involved roasting the nut, but by 2000 BC
Indigenous Australians were removing the toxins via water
and fermentation. Similarly, the nut, which is found in
Kerala in Southern India is commonly dried or roasted. The
last rather important piece of evidence that suggests
Indian settled in Australia is our beloved dingo.

The dingo has always been an enigma. No one really knows
how or why it ended up in Australia. We know it probably
exterminated the Tasmanian Tiger on Mainland Australia
(apart from the dingo-free island known as Tasmania) and we
know it didn't originate here. The dingo has a striking
resemblance to wild dogs found in India and so may have
travelled with the first Indian settlers to our Island.
However, there are similar looking dogs found in New Guinea
and South East Asia.

Whatever the case, modern genetics has highlighted a part
of Indigenous Ancestry previously lost to the world. Makes
you think what else we'll find.

Dhanyavaad for posting the article.
Jai Maharaj, Jyotishi Om Shanti

Related:

Excerpts:

Micronesia Mystery

On a tiny island of Micronesia lies one of archaeology
great mysteries -- the ruins of the ancient canal city of
Nan Madol (500 CE), home of 1,000 royal and elite
islanders. It is built of uncut stones weighing up to 50
tons on artificial islets bearing residences, meeting
houses, a palace, tombs, temples, baths and artificial
ponds. Basalt columns laid end-to-end extend half a mile
into the lagoon. Twelve vertical columns found planted
2,100 feet below the ocean's surface may be man-made. Nan
Madol disappeared in the 17th century. According to
archaeologist Prof. Ayres (University of Oregon) the
intricacy of the design suggests external cultural
influence, probably from Asia. This may give weight to the
theory that Hinduism once flourished deep into the Pacific,
as far as Hawaii.

Hindu Timeline feature from Hinduism Today

[...]

-45,000: After mastery of marine navigation, migrations
from Southeast Asia settle Australia and the Pacific
islands.

-40,000: Groups of hunter-gatherers in Central India are
living in painted rock shelters. Similar groups in Northern
Punjab work at open sites protected by windbreaks.

-35,000: Migrations of separated Asian populations settle
Europe.

[...]

-10,000: Last ice age ends after 65,000 years; earliest
signs of agriculture. World population 4 million; India is
100,000.

-10,000: Taittiriya Brahmana 3.1.2 refers to
Purvabhadrapada nakshatra's rising due east, a phenomenon
occurring at this date (Dr. B.G. Siddharth of Birla Science
Institute), indicating the earliest known dating of the
sacred Veda.

[...]

-1500: Polynesians migrate throughout Pacific islands.

[...]

ca 400: Polynesians sailing in open outrigger canoes reach
as far as Hawaii and Easter Island.

[...]

[End of Excerpts]

http://www.hinduismtoday.com

Jai Maharaj, Jyotishi
Om Shanti
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