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Review: The Indians Before India

Anchored in genetics, Tony Joseph’s Early Indians traces our ancestors to the Andaman Islands and the Zagros region of Iran.

Tony Joseph's Early Indians: The Story of Our Ancestors and Where We Came From is anchored in genetics, a field that has revolutionised our understanding of the past over the past decade. Along with archaeology, history and linguistics, Joseph fleshes out a narrative of migrations and mixture. Like a skyscraper whose superstructure is completed but

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