Who Were India’s First Humans? The AASI Story

The Ancient Ancestral South Indians or AASI are one of the three main lineages that contributed to modern Indians. The other two being Iranian farmer like peoples and the Steppe pastoralists. The AASI are the oldest, having arrived in India in the Pleistocene 50,000 years ago. This video explores their story. Chapters 00:00 Introduction 02:58 Dawn of the Paleolithic 08:42 Masters of the Mesolithic 13:32 Seeds of Civilization 18:51 The Last Echoes 23:31 Eternal Legacy Asian Drums - Vadodara by Kevin MacLeod is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 license. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/... Source: http://incompetech.com/music/royalty-... Artist: http://incompetech.com/ Research Sources include - 1. Shoulder height, body mass, and shape of proboscideans - ASIER LARRAMENDI https://www.app.pan.pl/archive/publis... 2. An Ancient Harappan Genome Lacks Ancestry from Steppe Pastoralists or Iranian Farmers - Shinde et al. https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles... 3. The formation of human populations in South and Central Asia - Narasimhan et al. https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles... 4. Stature in Holocene foragers of North India - John R Lukacs https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/1... 5. Documentation and Description of Nihali, a critically endangered language isolate of India - Shailendra Mohan https://www.elararchive.org/dk0168