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The ancestral Indian component paints a clear picture of what the original Vedic/Iranian people looked like. "Hindu Nationalists" and their delusions can deny this all they want.
This is Fact.
:"ANI" came to be seen for what it was; a composite. It seems to be mostly made up of Neolithic Iranian-related ancestry with some steppe ancestry owed to Indo-Aryan speaking pastoral nomads whose descendants descended upon Central and South Asia late into the Bronze Age, bringing the Indo-Aryan languages to South Asia. [note]
There they would have encountered farmers of the BMAC culture in Central Asia who were likely quite Neolithic Iranian-like. These Indo-Aryan speakers, likely quite similar to Northeastern Europeans (i.e. Lithuanians), most likely intermixed with farmers in Central Asia and then moved on into Northwestern South Asia (i.e. the Indus Valley) to a pre-modern civilization more or less on the verge of collapsing (The Indus Valley Civilization) and from there; further intermixing with locals seems to have occurred
It is clear the original Aryans resembled fair skinned Europeans, they darkened due to mixing with the BMAC Culture over a long period,
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bactri...ogical_Complex
The Aryans were in contact with them and actively mixed with them over a period of 450-500 years. The IndoIranians arrose from the Androvo Steppe Culture.
The primitive steppe Aryans who did have advanced black smithing but their Culture was not advanced, they learned from the advanced BMAC who had an urbanized civilization and settlements with 10,000-30,000 people living in each. The Aryans were semi-nomads, they borrowed a lot from this Culture. The Iranians dominated the Steppe zone and defeated the Vedic people in a conflict which lead the Vedic people to Invade India.
By the time they invaded India, they were most likely a composite with around 35% of them resembling White Europeans with light eyes and many who had light hair and 65% of them who were fair-light brown skinned with darker hair and eyes, most likely resembling modern day more fair skinned Persians.
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