Early Indians Quotes

“if you were to identify a single person who embodies us Indians the best, who do you think it should be? Ideally, it should be a tribal woman because she is most likely to be carrying the deepest-rooted and widest-spread mtDNA lineage in India today, M2. In a genetic sense, she would represent all of our history, with very little left out. She shares the most with the largest number of Indians, no matter where in the social ladder they stand, what language they speak and which region they inhabit because we are all migrants, and we are all mixed.”
― Tony Joseph, Early Indians: The Story of Our Ancestors and Where We Came From

“History begins when writing begins and places and individuals come alive before us, with their own names and, sometimes, recognizable stories”
― Tony Joseph, Early Indians: The Story of Our Ancestors and Where We Came From

“The DNA evidence has been conclusive that modern humans outside of Africa are all descendants of a single population of Out of Africa (OoA) migrants who moved into Asia sometime after 70,000 years ago and then spread around the world, perhaps replacing their genetic cousins such as Homo neanderthalensis along the way. All recent discoveries have gone on to reaffirm the African origins of all modern humans.”
― Tony Joseph, Early Indians: The Story of Our Ancestors and Where We Came From

“So to put it plainly, no man can do without the
mtDNA, but every woman can do without the Y-chromosome.”
― Tony Joseph, Early Indians: The Story of Our Ancestors and Where We Came From

“In the language of genetics, the Harappans contributed to the formation of the Ancestral South Indians by moving south and mixing with the First Indians of peninsular India and also to the formation of the Ancestral North Indians by mixing with the incoming ‘Aryans’. Therefore, in many ways, they are the cultural glue that keeps India together – or the sauce on the pizza, to build on a metaphor that we used earlier.”
― Tony Joseph, Early Indians: The Story of Our Ancestors and Where We Came From

“There were four possible paths for ancient modern humans out of Africa and into Eurasia – from Morocco in north-western Africa to Spain across the Strait of Gibraltar; from Tunisia into Sicily; from Egypt into the Sinai peninsula and on to the Levant; and from Eritrea in eastern Africa to Yemen and Saudi Arabia across the Bab el Mandeb at the southern tip of the Red Sea.”
― Tony Joseph, Early Indians: The Story of Our Ancestors and Where We Came From

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― Tony Joseph, Early Indians: The Story of Our Ancestors and Where We Came From

“Introduction How We, the Indians, Came to Be”
― Tony Joseph, Early Indians: The Story of Our Ancestors and Where We Came From