Alternate Theories
The opinion of the majority of professional archaeologists working in South Asia seems to be that there is no archaeological evidence to support external Indo-Aryan origins, or that the data is inconclusive. Kenoyer argued: "Although the overall socioeconomic organization changed, continuities in technology, subsistence practices, settlement organization, and some regional symbols show that the indigenous population was not displaced by invading hordes of Indo-Aryan speaking people. For many years, the ‘invasions’ or ‘migrations’ of these Indo-Aryan-speaking Vedic/Aryan tribes explained the decline of the Indus civilization and the sudden rise of urbanization in the Ganga-Yamuna valley. This was based on simplistic models of culture change and an uncritical reading of Vedic texts...
Even though several alternate theories have been proposed, Indo-Aryan migration theory, as described in this article remains to be the most accepted. Its main contender is the Anatolian hypothesis(1987), and there are many lesser accepted suggestions such as the Paleolithic Continuity Theory and Out of India theory.
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