Unmasking AIT

[Husky]

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Copy and pasted from Priyadarshi 2014 unless otherwise indicated.



1. IE-ists keep peddling their forgeries even after their frauds have been retracted



Some more seedy details about the Dereivka horse fraud.



134-136

The Dereivka Horse of 4200 BCE



In 1991, David Anthony reported in the Antiquity a horse-and-dog burial from Dereivka (Ukraine) from a layer dated 4200-3700 BCE. This became widely accepted as the earliest domesticated horse, bringing the location of the Aryan home in the Ukrainian steppe at about 4,200 BCE. However, Levine (cited in Anthony 2009:214-215) in her detailed study of the horse-bones from the same layer of Dereivka and from another steppe site Botai (3700-3000 BCE, Kazakhstan) inferred that none of the horses found at these two places had actually been ever domesticated (cited ibid:205). Hausler (cited ibid:214-215) and many other specialists of ancient horse bones too never accepted the 4200 BCE date for the domestic horse in the steppe.



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Then the skull bone of the horse was directly radiocarbon dated and found to be from 3000 BCE, which Anthony (1997) interpreted as contamination in the museum. However it was soon obvious that this radiocarbon report was wrong as the bone tested did not actually belong to the horse.



Thereafter another radiocarbon dating of the horse skull was done, giving the date 800-200 BCE (Scythian era). The conclusion emerged that the horse-burial had been dug deeper into the lower layers of the soil. David Anthony, author of the Dereivka story was left with no other choice, but to retract the claim, which he quickly did (Anthony:2000; 2009:215). He wrote, "New radiocarbon dates from Oxford and Kiev indicate that the Dereivka 'cult stallion' should be withdrawn from discussions of Eneolithic horse-keeping. The Dereivka horse died between about 700 and 200 BCE." (Anthony in Antiquity 2000).



This episode bulldozed the steppe-horse theory completely. Yet the Dereivka horse has been kept alive by many Eurocentric authors in the field. The belief in 4200 BCE steppe horse is perpetuated by the unscrupulous writings of prominent authorities like Trautmann (2005) who control and regulate the academic world. Trautmann republished in 2005 (and 2007:251-253) extracts from David Anthony's oldest article claiming the 4200 BC domestic horse of Dereivka (Ukraine). Trautmann did this and the Oxford University Press published it in spite of the fact that David Anthony had retracted from this older claim (of year 1991) in year 2000 (Antiquity). The hisotry writing has been brought down to the level of racist conspiracy.

And the score is that:

Mair, Anthony, Trautman, Oxford Uni Press are all caught lying for IEism.



2. pages 167-168

In spite of the several horse hoaxes raised about the steppe, the recent archaeological studies seriously challenge the long held views that steppe was the home of the true horse. The archaeological study done at Begash (Kazakhistan) confirmed in a recent study: "While pastoral herding of sheep and goats is evident from the Early Bronze Age, the horse appears only in small numbers before the end of the first millennium BC" (Frachetti and Benecke 2009: Abstract).



The paper adds the "horse use seems to commence gradually and is not highly associated with early and middle Bronze Age pastoralists." (ibid:1025). The authors find, the "percentage of horse remains at Begash remain below 6 per cent until approximately AD 50 (Phase 3b)", and "The domestic horse is documented at Begash by the start of the second millennium BC, but its impact on pastoralism is not clear."

In our view, such stray domestic horses as ones documented from second millennium Begash, were Bronze Age imports from the further south, i.e. Iran and northwest India. Challenging the whole hypothesis, Frachetti and Benecke note: "Thus the data from Begash draw into question the general view that Eurasian pastoralism diffused eastward as a result of mounted horsemen in the Bronze Age".



A study at Tentek-sor (northern Caspian, Kazakhstan) revealed that horse bones do not increase between 4000 BCE and 2000 BCE (Koryakova), and the samples did not contain any domestic sheep or cattle, even wild aurochs was only 5% (Frachetti 2012:7, Koryakova 2007). However, after 2000 BCE we get a very large number of domestic cattle (60 to 90%) in the steppe and Central Asia, indicating the arrival of pastoralism into this region only after 2000 BC (Koryakova:88, 65, 146-147). This indicates that probably all the horse bones from earlier than 2000 BC dates are of the wild horses. Koryakova (p.54) noted "but horse bones are extremely rare in the Kurgans", and "a larger group of specialists share the idea that classical steppe nomadism appeared in the first millennium BCE" (ibid:55).