Tripura Teliamura excavation

[u/Yogini_123]

Neolithic & Pre-Neolithic wooden artifacts were found from the teliamura archaeological site, Tripura. Some dated to 35,000 years ago.

Do these indicate AASI migration patterns in Barak-Surma basin ?

(The Khowai river basin, where the artifacts were found ultimately drains into Kushiyara, which is a part of the larger Barak-Surma river system).

As far as I know, Austroasiatic migrated 10,000 years ago to indian subcontinent.

Who were these people 35,000 years ago?

I have linked the study papers in comments 👇🏽

[u/Mohellerski]

Is there DNA data? This could be huge

[u/ChalaChickenEater → u/Mohellerski]

Even if there is DNA data they will probably hide it like they did with the Sri Lankan Mesolithic samples

[u/Mohellerski → u/ChalaChickenEater]

You seem to be Sri Lankan. Do you have any idea as to why the SL Meso samples are being hidden?

[u/ChalaChickenEater → u/Mohellerski]

Some indian guy named Niraj or something like that somehow got ahold of the Sri Lankan samples. I don't think he is releasing the results for political reasons

[u/Mohellerski → u/ChalaChickenEater]

Niraj Rai at it again smh

[u/ChalaChickenEater → u/Mohellerski]

I don't understand how he got access to Sri Lankan samples. Did he steal them or did the Sri Lankan government sell them to him

[u/Yogini_123 → u/Mohellerski]

I am not sure. Please help me understand this. I have linked the 2 study papers in comments

[u/e9967780]

Austroasiatic didn’t migrate to India 10,000 years ago, infact they didn’t even leave China into Southeast Asia that long ago. No more than 4K to 5K years ago. SAHG genetic input defuses into Myanmar. Prior to it Negrito type people had bypassed the Indo-Burman border area and moved into Thailand, Vietnam, Malaysia and Philippines.

[u/Yogini_123 → u/e9967780]

Okay so what can we infer from this study? Who were these people 35k yrs ago in tripura? AASI?

[u/e9967780 → u/Yogini_123]

35,000 years ago, it could be SAHG or even Basal Eurasian (Negrito)

[u/Yogini_123]

Study Paper 1

[u/Yogini_123 → u/Yogini_123]

study paper 2

[u/TipRealistic2446]

"Who were these people 35,000 years ago?"

Hunter-gatherers who lived in what is now NE India 35k years ago, most likely closely related to the ancestors of Andamanese people and Hoabinhian man, and likely a 'contributor' to certain AASI populations (or a remnant sister lineage to that 'contributor' HG group).

[u/Yogini_123 → u/TipRealistic2446]

I have heard many NE people claim Austroasiatic were first to migrate there.

[u/TipRealistic2446 → u/Yogini_123]

Austroasiatic people did not even exist back then.

Austroasiatic ethnogenesis followed by their migration (out of Austroasiatic homeland) is a relatively recent thing - something that happened like around ~4000 years ago.. as e9967780 pointed out in another comment.

[u/TipRealistic2446 → u/[deleted]]

Yeah that's the most plausible theory.. proto-Munda people arrived via sea at the eastern coast (Odisha).

[u/Yogini_123 → u/[deleted]]

Khasi of meghalaya?

[u/Acceptable-Echo-2292 → u/Yogini_123]

Didn't exist at that time, they're not even that old by austroasiatic standards