The views the ASI presented in the documentary, and in the media coverage of Sinauli, had serious detractors in the archaeologist community, and some within the ASI as well, all of whom were far more cautious in their approach. Some believed that the findings were, in fact, additional evidence in favour of a migration into the Indian subcontinent. There was also a mound of conflicting scientific DNA evidence in favour of a migration from the Pontic–Caspian Steppes in Central Asia that had emerged around the same time as the Sinauli discoveries, coming from other sites excavated by the ASI itself.

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