Synopsis: Karnataka’s Koraga tribe shares proto-Dravidian ancestry tracing back to early populations from the Iranian plateau around 4,400 years ago, roughly the same time as the Indus Valley Civilisation, a new study has found. Published in the European Journal of Human Genetics, it offers new insight into the origins of Dravidian-speaking peoples and suggests an ancient cultural and linguistic zone stretching between the Iranian plateau and the Indus Valley.

A team of geneticists studying the Koraga tribe has identified a previously unknown ancestral source in the Indian gene pool, tracing it to early Dravidian-speaking populations from the Iranian plateau around 4,400 years ago.

The findings, first reported by The Telegraph and published in the European Journal of Human Genet

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