Indus valley civilisation

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Scientific fact? Not good enough to be true.

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Op-eds Science Aryan migration Caspian grasslands Caspian steppes caste system European steppe genomic analysis haplogroup R1a1a Harappan civilisation Indo-Aryan migration Indus valley civilisation mitochondrial DNA Rakhigarhi Rig Veda Saraswati river

Last week in India: Two scientists who coauthored two papers, along with many others from India as well as abroad, have spoken out against the conclusions of those papers even as they refused to dista…

Ruins of the Sutlej avulsion paper's coverage

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Life notes fluviodeltaic morphodynamics Ghaggar-Hakra palaeochannel hydrodynamics Indus river Indus valley civilisation river avulsion science communication science journalism science writing sedimentology Sutlej river

Reporting on the new Indus civilisation study out of IIT-K and Imperial College London was an interesting experience because it afforded an opportunity to discover how the technical fields of sediment…