27.01.09
R1a marker and PIE
James comment on genetics issue: http://www.gurdjieff-con.net/2009/01/26/ait-vedas-tantra-and-genetics/#comment-33770
James said,
26.01.09 at 10:01 pm ·
There is a tendency to discount R1a as the PIE marker now by supporters of the current paradigm because it seems to indicate a movement out of India instead of a movement into India:
“In the late 1990s some researchers concluded that the R1a Y chromosomal haplgroup was exactly that signal, though that seems more doubtful today. Other researchers are looking to other genetic clues which might offer up insight into from where, and how, the Proto-Indo-Europeans spread.”http://scienceblogs.com/gnxp/2009/01/tribal_europe_and_the_indoeuro.php#commentsArea
You pointed this out before, but I had overlooked it. The whole question remains in many ways obscure. We will have to follow the debate for some time, I think, unless some evidence proves finally decisive.