"Ideas of invasions, diffusions, and conquests have obscured and hindered investigation into the region's indigenous cultural processes. To fully understand and appreciate the various solutions to cultural problems recorded in the South Asian archaeological record, alternative explanatory frameworks must be considered."
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Shaffer, Jim G. 1984a. "Bronze Age Iron from Afghanistan: Its Implications for South Asian Protohistory." In Studies in the Archaeology and Palaeoanthmpology of South Asia (41-75). New Delhi: Oxford University Press. p. 59. Quoted in Bryant, E. F. (2001). The Quest for the Origins of Vedic Culture : the Indo-Aryan migration debate. Oxford University Press. chapter 9
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