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wiki: A copper item representing a human head styled in the manner described for the Rigvedic Vasishtas has been dated to around 3700 B.C. in three western universities using among other tests carbon 14 tests, spectographic analysis, X-ray dispersal analysis and metallography (Hicks and Anderson. Analysis of an Indo-European Vedic Aryan Head - 4500-2500 B.C., in Journal of IE studies 18:425-446. Fall 1990.).</i>
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"A Surprise Head"
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by Subhash Kak,
Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge.
from: "Yoga Journal", July/August 1992.
(taken without permission).
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In 1990, the prestigious "Journal of Indo-European Studies"
carried an article entitled "Analysis of an Indo-European
Vedic Aryan Head - 4th Millenium B.C." Authored by Harry
Hicks and Robert Anderson from California, this article has
created a storm of excitement among Indian scholars because
it presents technical evidence establishing that a bronze
head obtained by Hicks in Delhi in 1958 was cast more than
6000 years ago.
The life-sized head has a hairstyle that the Vedas describe
as being unique to the family of Vasishtha, one of the great
seers who composed parts of the "Rig Veda". The hair is
oiled and coiled with a tuft on the right, and the ears are
riveted. Vasishtha was a priest to the famous Vedic king
Sudas, who defeated a coalition of 10 kings in a battle on
the banks of the Parushni river.
Carbon-14 tests performed on carbon deposits from inside the
hollow head indicate that it was cast around 3700 B.C. with
an error in either direction of up to 800 years. The tests
were conducted at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology
in Zurich and at the Cyclotron at the University of Califor-
nia, Davis. Independent metallurgical tests also indicate an
age consistent with the carbon tests.
Stylistically the head is unique, with some parallels from
the realistic torso that has survived from the Harappan era
of the third millennium B.C. The head bears an inscription
that was apparently added several thousand years after it
was cast, in a script that was in use until about 600 years
ago. Although identification of the head with Vasishtha may
yet be contested, it seems fairly certain that the head is
Vedic.
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wiki: A copper item representing a human head styled in the manner described for the Rigvedic Vasishtas has been dated to around 3700 B.C. in three western universities using among other tests carbon 14 tests, spectographic analysis, X-ray dispersal analysis and metallography (Hicks and Anderson. Analysis of an Indo-European Vedic Aryan Head - 4500-2500 B.C., in Journal of IE studies 18:425-446. Fall 1990.).</i>
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"A Surprise Head"
===============
by Subhash Kak,
Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge.
from: "Yoga Journal", July/August 1992.
(taken without permission).
------------------------------------------------------------
In 1990, the prestigious "Journal of Indo-European Studies"
carried an article entitled "Analysis of an Indo-European
Vedic Aryan Head - 4th Millenium B.C." Authored by Harry
Hicks and Robert Anderson from California, this article has
created a storm of excitement among Indian scholars because
it presents technical evidence establishing that a bronze
head obtained by Hicks in Delhi in 1958 was cast more than
6000 years ago.
The life-sized head has a hairstyle that the Vedas describe
as being unique to the family of Vasishtha, one of the great
seers who composed parts of the "Rig Veda". The hair is
oiled and coiled with a tuft on the right, and the ears are
riveted. Vasishtha was a priest to the famous Vedic king
Sudas, who defeated a coalition of 10 kings in a battle on
the banks of the Parushni river.
Carbon-14 tests performed on carbon deposits from inside the
hollow head indicate that it was cast around 3700 B.C. with
an error in either direction of up to 800 years. The tests
were conducted at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology
in Zurich and at the Cyclotron at the University of Califor-
nia, Davis. Independent metallurgical tests also indicate an
age consistent with the carbon tests.
Stylistically the head is unique, with some parallels from
the realistic torso that has survived from the Harappan era
of the third millennium B.C. The head bears an inscription
that was apparently added several thousand years after it
was cast, in a script that was in use until about 600 years
ago. Although identification of the head with Vasishtha may
yet be contested, it seems fairly certain that the head is
Vedic.