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( 93 ) who helped his people in establishing political hegemony through military conquests in Greece and Bhārata.
This is the picture of the migrations of the greyware people constructed by archaeology. The pottery patterns and human cum animal material remains discovered in Greece, South Russia, Poland, Ukraine (Tripolje), Asia Minor, Iran, Arachosia, Gedrosia and Bhārata tell a remarkably similar story.
The greyware culture. painted or plain, exhibits certain remarkable traits. This is foreign to these regions. This Greyware people is violent and warlike. Its economy is
are Åryans based upon the collective ownership of herds of cattle, Horse is distinctly associated with it. It developed military organisation par excellence. It possessed newest and best weapons of war. It forced its suzerainty over the prior peaceful culture. This archaeological picture accords well with the literary pictures of the Hellenes and the Brahmas painted in Greek aud Brāhmaṇic accounts of the heroic ages Circa 1000 B. C. and later. These people are the Wiros or Aryans of history.
This archaeological picture demolishes many of the original home theories. Modern supporters of Penkas' theory Archaeological still cling to the evidences of pre-historic Conclusions archaeology. They laid much stress on geometric pattern on prehistoric pottery in Central Germany. Similar patterns on the pre-historic pottery have also been discovered in South Russia, Poland and Ukraine. The evidence is not sufficient to justify the claim of Germany to be the Aryan original home.
Nehring dated the Tripolje culture in the Third Millennium B. C. but it has been proved wrong by V. Gordon Childe. He dates the stage 1 of Tripolje culture not earlier
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