Indians have black ancestors

Ancestral South Indians were a postulated ancient people who are considered to be one of the two main populations that contributed to the genetic heritage of modern-day South Asian ethnic groups.[1][2] They are believed to have been genetically unique and not closely related to any other human populations in the world.[2] Of all modern-day Indians, only the Andamanese are believed to possess Ancestral South Indian lineage without admixture of any Ancestral North Indian genetic heritage.[2]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ancestral_South_Indians

 

 

more info on them from this article: http://knol.google.com/k/the-little-...daman-islands#



A Negrito Tribe of tiny but fierce Pygmies , the Jarawa Tribe, of the Andaman Islands in the Indian Ocean, provides an excellent example of what modern humans were like when they first emerged out of Africa. Genetic evidence hints at a Negrito presence on the Andaman Islands in India going back more than 30,000 years, and possibly reaching as far back as 60,000 years. It is thought that the surviving Negritos are a remnant population representing an early ( perhaps the earliest ) migration of modern Homo Sapiens out of Africa

The language that the Negritos of the Andaman Islands speak, is a part of the "Malay-Australoid" group of languages, which interestingly is related to the language of the large island of Madagascar, which is located off the east coast of Southern Africa. This shows that there was a linguistic connection to Africa as well as Southeast Asia, and the Australian Aborigines. Recent analysis of the DNA of the "Great Andamanese" (one of the other three tribes of Negritos on the Andaman Islands) shows that they are genetically very close to the "Bushmen' or "Pygmies" of South Africa. This shows that the Andaman Tribes came from the South of Africa and the island of Madagascar. The Negritos must have originally been the dominate stone culture of Southern Africa, until the "big people" from the North invaded and took over the land, pushing them out. Perhaps they turned to the sea as a source of food because they were unable to compete for food with the "big people", or because the land was too barren to support them. On the mainland of Southern Africa, they would have been absorbed, driven out, or killed by the "big people", or forced to live where there were no "big people" like the African Pygmies who survived... But those with boats could have populated Madagascar and been the dominant culture of Madagascar long after the mainland was over run by the "big people". Then when the "big people" did get boats and began to arrive in small groups, they would not have had the strength of numbers to drive out or kill the "little people", but instead were assimilated into the population, so that some of the language of the little people lives on in Madagascar, even to this day.

If the Negritos were the first, or one of the first, waves of modern man to migrate out of Africa, and assuming they did it in small boats... They would have been the dominate culture along the coasts and islands of Asia. This seems likely because their language is linked with many ancient languages of the area. They are probably ancestors of the dark skinned peoples of Southern India, Sri Lanka, Bangladesh, The East Indies, and even the Australian Aborigines. They were probably the dominate culture of many of these area, until once again, invaders from the north over ran and absorbed them, killed them, or pushed them off the mainland, and off the most desirable islands. But on some islands, the Negritos retreated to remote valleys, and mountain refuges, where they lingered on, out of sight of the "big people". And on some isolated remote islands ( like the Andaman Islands ) that were considered uninhabited , they continued to survive undisturbed.

And while ethnography and ethnogenesis are not my fortay...perhaps you should continue...write a paper and submit for scholastic review. Best of luck if you do.

 

 

 

I agree wtha most of South India is hybrid, I just disagree on how much influence the very small in number negrito groups have had on South Indians.  I think there is far more Australoid influence in south India than Negrito.

Originally posted by balochii . Even in pakistan if you notice the rural population of the indus valley in punjab/sindh is mainly dark skinned and looks similar to south indians

Perhaps they are of partial Australoid descent.  Also, caucasoid complections can range from very light to relatively dark (Somalians and Ethiopians are caucasoids).   My guess is that the people of the indus valley are almost entirely of caucasoid DNA (with darker complections). 

 

Australoid are also decendants of Negrito though, Negrito are an older group. Australoid have also mixed a bit with others maybe thats why their features have become a bit caucasian, but these Negrito that i posted haven't mixed with any one else and thats why they have their original features.

 

 

why not save them? they are our ancestors and they are rare, we have to save them to know who we are and what our history is. Wouldn't you wana save rare people like (kalash in pakistan) for example, who might be related to the first indo europeans

 

 

 

 

That's all is to it!

 

 

 

^ the recent dna results clearly indicate that the onge (Negrito) people of anadaman islands are closely related to most indians, basically many different indian groups espeically tribal indian people have huge chunk of dna which is similar to Onge people, this indicates that ancestors of Onge were once on living on mainland India and even to this day south indians and eastern indians share huge chunk of their dna with them.

 

But pakistanis for example are much more west eurasian in their genetic makeup, though they also have limited amount of Onge dna in them

 

all Anadamase people came from  mainland india, with time their populations got wiped out or got mixed with other people. But again this clearly gives evidence that they are the earliest ancestors of many indians and even south asians