Comments on: The Real History of India Part 2 – Anthropological Plate Tectonics? http://www.sastwingees.org/2008/02/03/anthropological-plate-tectonics/ Knowledge is Scrumptious Sun, 05 Feb 2012 13:13:57 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Vamsi http://www.sastwingees.org/2008/02/03/anthropological-plate-tectonics/comment-page-1/#comment-1780 Vamsi Fri, 08 Feb 2008 04:24:34 +0000 http://www.sastwingees.org/2008/02/03/anthropological-plate-tectonics/#comment-1780 Pl check the series by Jeroid http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q1bUR98bsz0&feature=user Pl check the series by Jeroid

]]> By: pk.karthik http://www.sastwingees.org/2008/02/03/anthropological-plate-tectonics/comment-page-1/#comment-1775 pk.karthik Wed, 06 Feb 2008 06:27:47 +0000 http://www.sastwingees.org/2008/02/03/anthropological-plate-tectonics/#comment-1775 Thanks Sukumar... I guess i need to be patient till the next post :) Thanks Sukumar…

I guess i need to be patient till the next post :)

]]> By: Sukumar http://www.sastwingees.org/2008/02/03/anthropological-plate-tectonics/comment-page-1/#comment-1774 Sukumar Tue, 05 Feb 2008 14:56:58 +0000 http://www.sastwingees.org/2008/02/03/anthropological-plate-tectonics/#comment-1774 Priya, Here is a link for the writing question you asked. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_writing You can see that many people have claimed that they had the earliest writing. In my view, for a valid writing claim, there should be a non-trivial corpus of writing. If you go by that and the earliest one of that, you land up in Mesopotamia, the real cradle of civilization. Priya,
Here is a link for the writing question you asked. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_writing
You can see that many people have claimed that they had the earliest writing. In my view, for a valid writing claim, there should be a non-trivial corpus of writing. If you go by that and the earliest one of that, you land up in Mesopotamia, the real cradle of civilization.

]]> By: Sukumar http://www.sastwingees.org/2008/02/03/anthropological-plate-tectonics/comment-page-1/#comment-1773 Sukumar Tue, 05 Feb 2008 12:47:37 +0000 http://www.sastwingees.org/2008/02/03/anthropological-plate-tectonics/#comment-1773 Karthik, Good question on Europe. You will see the answer to your question in my next post. I want to create a bit of a suspense. I did check the old cities link you gave. That is an interesting list. Jericho is already included in the fertile crescent. Because it has been rebuilt so many times, it is hard to associate it with any one culture. This may be a problem common to many old cities because they have all been invaded, sacked, destroyed, rebuilt etc. To me being the oldest per se is not that important, what culture were they following is more important. This is because there have been several claims including Indian claims that they have discovered some very old city and that pushes back human civilization a few millennium back and that India should be the original cradle of civilization. The discovery of Mehrgarh was also tom-tomed in the same way. The problem is if you look closely at Mehrgarh, it is another Neolithic clay brick settlement. So i want to be careful about using data from such old city claims. Priya, you are right. Mleccha means foreigner in Sanskrit and it has been used extensively to designate many kinds of foreigners over the years. Karthik, you are right about the theory that Meluhha is a corruption of Mleccha. You will see in the next post more explanations for that term. Just one more element in the suspense. Stay tuned. Karthik,
Good question on Europe. You will see the answer to your question in my next post. I want to create a bit of a suspense.

I did check the old cities link you gave. That is an interesting list. Jericho is already included in the fertile crescent. Because it has been rebuilt so many times, it is hard to associate it with any one culture. This may be a problem common to many old cities because they have all been invaded, sacked, destroyed, rebuilt etc. To me being the oldest per se is not that important, what culture were they following is more important. This is because there have been several claims including Indian claims that they have discovered some very old city and that pushes back human civilization a few millennium back and that India should be the original cradle of civilization. The discovery of Mehrgarh was also tom-tomed in the same way. The problem is if you look closely at Mehrgarh, it is another Neolithic clay brick settlement. So i want to be careful about using data from such old city claims.

Priya, you are right. Mleccha means foreigner in Sanskrit and it has been used extensively to designate many kinds of foreigners over the years.

Karthik,
you are right about the theory that Meluhha is a corruption of Mleccha. You will see in the next post more explanations for that term. Just one more element in the suspense. Stay tuned.

]]> By: pk.karthik http://www.sastwingees.org/2008/02/03/anthropological-plate-tectonics/comment-page-1/#comment-1771 pk.karthik Tue, 05 Feb 2008 06:36:46 +0000 http://www.sastwingees.org/2008/02/03/anthropological-plate-tectonics/#comment-1771 Yes Priya you are right ...in Bhagavatham it says the Mleccha .There is one theory which mentions that Meluha could be a corruption of Mlecha... And it mentions that they came from West ..so that was basis of my assumption :) Yes Priya you are right …in Bhagavatham it says the Mleccha .There is one theory which mentions that Meluha could be a corruption of Mlecha…
And it mentions that they came from West ..so that was basis of my assumption :)

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