A History of Agriculture in India v1.c24.17

v1.c24.17

According to Gening the Sintashta relics date back to the sixteenth century B.C., i.e. to the period of the Indo-Iranians’ advance to the East. Parallels in funeral rites, beliefs and social systems can be drawn with the Indo-Iranians, and make it possible to advance a hypothesis concerning the connection between these relics and the ancestors of the Indo-Iranians. Contacts must have been made at the time of their movement to the East from the Volga and the Black Sea steppes. The Sintashta findings make it possible to form the hypothesis that the Iranians had mixed with large groups of local tribes, most probably of Ugro-Finnish origin. The very name of the Indo-Iranians, “Aryans”, was probably inherited from local tribes along with other tribal names.