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"Ethnicity and language are not easily linked with an archaeological signature, and the identity of the Indo-Iranians remains elusive."
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The Indo-Iranian peoples, or Indo-Iranic peoples, also known as Aárya or Aryans from their self-designation, are a group of speakers of Indo-European languages who brought the offshoot Indo-Iranian languages to parts of Eurasia in waves from the first part of the 2nd millennium BC onwards The original location of Indo-Iranians were thought to be north of modern-day Afghanistan, east of the Caspia
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"[T]he and agreed that the essence of their shared parental Indo-Iranian identity was linguistic and ritual, not racial. If a person sacrificed to the right gods in the right way using the correct forms of the traditional hymns and poems, that person was an Aryan."
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"But, in fact, very little of the illustrative archaeological material actually exhibits specific Indo-European or Indo-Iranian traits; a question therefore arises: what is the relevance of archaeological material if any sort of assemblage present at the expected or supposed time/space spot can function as the tag of a linguistic group?"
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