The brothers

Via Razib, Harvard has a summary of the Reich lab. Dancing around the Aryan Problem, which became (for Gimbutas) the Kurgan Problem.

These are theories of the IndoEuropean invasions of Europe and India (and Tocharia, for those who've heard of it). You-Know-Who and his forebears lumped them all in as "Aryans", based on ancient Indian and Iranian (and maybe Baltic) memories of Aryan invaders. It's turned out that this doesn't apply so well to, say, Iberia and Italy. Gimbutas revived this as, more neutrally, the "Kurgan" hypothesis - adding a lot of 1960s/70s feminism and Gender Studies, so as to make the Kurgans into the BAD guys.

This may account for why Harvard cites David Anthony as the Kurgan expert and completely ignores Gimbutas. Although Schiklgruber (yDNA E)'s notions are mentioned (at the end). I think Mallory deserved better however.

Anyway I got to wondering if the old myth of the Gemini, whom Greek dimly recalled as Castor and Pollux, may reflect the division between R1a and R1b. Their successors are both associated with Indo-European. R1a is strongest for the Aryan branch in Iran. Although some R1a came along west and some R1b east (especially Central Asia).