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Close affinities were noted between this pre-Aryan culture on the banks of the Indus and the contemporary Sumerian culture far westward in the Tigris and Euphrates valleys.

From Time Magazine Archive

Peissel, who speaks Tibetan and has made frequent trips to the Himalayas, says: "The Minaro are indeed the last inheritors in Asia of Aryan, pre-Aryan and neolithic traditions."

From Time Magazine Archive

I have somewhere met with the statement that the Dom was pre-Aryan, but allowed to rank as Hindoo on account of services rendered to the early conquerors.

From The Gypsies by Leland, Charles Godfrey

It does not follow, as we know from other countries, that the pre-Aryan tribes of Gaul and Britain, or indeed the Aryan tribes themselves in their earliest stage, regarded their original ancestors as human. 

From Celtic Religion in Pre-Christian Times by Anwyl, Edward

Elton claims it to be a survival of pre-Aryan times.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 4, Slice 3 "Borgia, Lucrezia" to "Bradford, John" by Various