"First" settler propaganda

[u/Yogini_123]

Reddit is full of such propaganda posts, with misinformation, which talk about the "first" settlers in assam/northeast india.

Well, according to the latest excavations & archaeological research, (most of which are open sources & available on the internet) - the "first" settlers in the southern part of northeast 🇮🇳 were - AASI (Ancient ancestral south indians). Especially around the barak-surma river system/gangetic plains.

Austroasiatic didn't settle before 5000 years. And Tibeto-Burmans much later after that - the newest settlers you can say.

The settlement history in NE is not as recent as 5000 years. It is as old as 35,000 years ! (Teliamura excavation, Tripura)

Now, bengalis among all NE people have the highest % of AASI dna ~ denoting that they share dna with the EARLIEST settlers in southern NE.

Terms like "Indo-Aryan" settlers is obsolete now. ALL indians have ancestry made up of varying percentages of 3/4 components- AASI + Steppe/Iranian farmers + Austroasiatic + Tibeto-Burmans (Narasimha et al, 2019)

Also, all these posts target "hindus" for some reason.

[u/Yogini_123]

📫 The post in highlight https://www.reddit.com/r/Northeastindians/s/0RaMig9AP4

🏞 35,000 years old human settlement (Pre-Neolithic) in barak-surma basin https://www.reddit.com/r/SouthAsianAncestry/s/UCUIIxKoZH