"The data provide no support for any model of massive migration and gene flow between the oases of Bactria and the Indus Valley. Rather, patterns of phenetic affinity best conform to a pattern of long-standing, but low-level bidirectional mutual exchange."

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Hemphill, B. E., 1998, " Biological Affinities and Adaptations of Bronze Age Bactrians : HI. An Initial Craniometric Assessment ", American Journal of Physical Anthropoogy, 106, 329-348. -, 1999, " Biological Affinities and Adaptations of Bronze Age Bactrians : III. A Craniometric Investigation of Bactrian Origins ", American Journal of Physical Anthropoogy, 108, 173-192. Quoted in p. 302. Henri-Paul Francfort. La civilisation de l'Oxus et les Indo-Iraniens et Indo-Aryens en Asie centrale. 2005,