Pradyaus

Indo-Europeanists like David W Anthony and E E Kuzmina argued that certain details found in Vedic and Avestan texts matches the material remains of Sintashta-Andronovo cultures. Let us look into these claims.  Anthony associates the description of Ashvamedha ritual or Vedic horse sacrifice as described in Rig Veda 1.162 with the burials found in Sintashta-Andronovo culture which has yielded horse remains. To quote him: “The horse sacrifice at a royal funeral is described in RV 1.162: “Keep the limbs undamaged and place them in the proper pattern. Cut them apart, calling out piece by piece.” The horse sacrifices in Sintashta, Potapovka, and Fitlatovka graves match this description, with the lower legs of horses carefully cut apart at the joints and placed in and over the grave. The preference for horses as sacrificial animals in Sintashta funeral rituals, a species choice setting Sintashta apart from earlier steppe cultures, was again paralleled in the RV. Another verse in the same ...

  The bronze age Sintashta culture of the steppes near the Ural mountains is considered by majority of the Indo-Europeanists as the home of Indo-Iranians or the ‘Aryans’ who were common ancestors of Indic and Iranian speakers before they moved into India and Iran as per the steppe kurgan hypothesis. This culture is dated from around 2400 BCE as per the earliest estimations. An average Sintashta settlement hosted around 200-700 people as per archaeologist Alicia Ventresca Miller who works on ancient populations of Eurasian Steppes [1]. “Middle Bronze Age (2400–1800 cal BCE) people, often referred to as the Sintashta, constructed nucleated settlements, with population estimates ranging from 200 to 700 individuals.” Many Sintashta settlements only had a few hundred people on average as per the study by anthropologist Denis Sharapov, at max it reached around ~1000 [2]. “ Existing population estimates of people living within the fortified walls of Sintashta towns are often based on the ...