Peopling of India
Immigration patterns of different lineages of people of India
Peopling of India
The peopling of India refers to the migration of Homo sapiens into the Indian subcontinent. Anatomically modern humans settled India in multiple waves of early migrations, over tens of millennia. The first migrants came with the Coastal Migration/Southern Dispersal 65,000 years ago, whereafter complex migrations within South and Southeast Asia took place. West Asian Iranian hunter-gatherers migrated to South Asia after the Last Glacial Period but before the onset of farming. Together with ancient South Asian hunter-gatherers they formed the population of the Indus Valley Civilisation (IVC). The population of the IVC was the result of mixing between Iranian hunter gatherers and Ancient Ancestral South Indian (AASI). With the decline of the IVC, and the migration of Indo-Europeans, the IVC-people contributed to the formation of both the Ancestral North Indians ("ANI"), who were related to contemporary West Eurasians, and the Ancestral South Indians ("ASI"), who were formed out of "Indus...
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