Indo-Aryan Origins, Genetics and Pre-History: A Conversation with Ashish Kulkarni

Join Mukunda as he speaks with the Ashish Kulkarni, better known on twitter as @agenetics1, he is an engineer and part of a new wave of online genetics researchers, who have access to all the genetic data and are now able to model the data to confirm current ideas or develop new ones.   In this episode, we discuss a host of topics including:
00:02:19  Ashish’s Background and how he got into studying genetics
00:11:30  Discussion on how languages can spread
00:19:10 What is Proto-Indo-European, Who were the people who spoke it, where and when were they in history?  Discussion on the homeland of Proto-Indo-European people (Kurgan, Anatolia, Steppe) and the potential migration paths of the various groups of Proto-Indo-Europeans into Europe and Asia
00:41:40 Genetics of the Indus Valley Civilization and the role of Iranian Farmer ancestry across all Indo-European language speaking groups.    
00:56:33  Argument and Evidence for Central Asia being the homeland of the Indo-Aryan language family and their people
01:02:20 Horses, Chariots and Wheels
01:25:30 How has Ashish’s theories been reacted to and responded to by other genetic researchers?
01:31:30 Discussion of R1a haplogroup
01:47:50 Concluding Thoughts


You can find Ashish Kulkarni at:
https://a-genetics.blogspot.com/
Twitter: @agenetics1


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