Talk:Sintashta

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be careful with "Indo-European swastika". You cannot just equate pottery with languages. I agree it is likely the Sintashta people were Indo-Iranians, but that's just a hypothesis. And who can be sure the Vinca swastikas of the 5th millennium were not "Indo-European"? In the Gimbutas/Kurgan framework, they probably weren't. But we still have to stick to the facts. Swastika-like symbols appear on Sintashta pottery. The Sintashta culture is associated with Indo-Iranians. That doesn't make the swastika "Indo-European". The earliest evidence of the swaskika as a "holy" (rather than merely decorative) symbol dates to ca. 600 BC. In all probability, we are just looking at random ornaments here, without any poignant "Aryan holy symbol" connotations. dab (ᛏ) 07:23, 13 September 2005 (UTC)

The "swastika" symbol is not visible at all in the pottery. Also, the symbol itself has acquired dangerous white supremacist overtones. Any reference to swastika or I-E or Indo-Iranian has to be verified,cross-checked and attested by archaeologists.Wild surmises cannot pass for hypothesis. Museofasia (talk) 08:39, 24 February 2008 (UTC) Museofasia 12:37pm, February24, 2008