"The rise, fall and recovery of migration models is partly embedded in paradigm shifts in archaeological theory, with all the socio-political factors of academic competition that are entailed. The insistent clamour of the homeless, the migrant and the refugee is rarely still and we cannot but face its consequences on an academic as well as a human level."
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David W. Anthony, commenting on the resurgence of migrationism in the late 1980s, in "Prehistoric Migration as Social Process", Migrations and Invasions in Archaeological Explanation (21-31), ed. John Chapman and Helena Hamerow (Oxford: Archaeopress, 1997), p. 21, as quoted by E. F. Bryant, The Quest for the Origins of Vedic Culture: The Indo-Aryan Migration Debate (Oxford University Press, 2001), Ch. 10
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