Relics Of Ancient Burial Rites Reveal Siberian Trade Route

Moscow Times ^ | 1-16-2004 | Charles Q. Choi

[blam]

"Within historical times the caravan routes (silk road etc.)ran through southern Asia for obvious reasons."

True. There was trade along what was to become the Silk Road 2,000 years before it was called that.

Frankly, I don't know much about this area. (Siberia)

However, don't forget that the Ainu and the Jomon of Japan must have migrated through there at some time in the past. The oldest Jomon skeleton found in Japan is 13,000 years old.
Then we were suprised by these folks in China The Curse Of The Red-Headed Mummy. I'm in the process of re-reading Victor Mair's book, The Tarim Mummies, for the third time. I'm beginning to think that the Great Wall of China was built to keep out Caucasian 'Mongols' (Barbarians) from the north.
Maybe some of these Siberian folks?

[msdrby]

ping

[greenwolf]

The only thing that sort of stands out about Siberia is that it's too cold for most living things at present but 10,000 or 15,000 years ago it used to be warmer, and you had herds of mammoths and other large mammals wandering around over it. It could have been some sort of a trade center THEN; anything like that 1000 years ago is just real hard to picture.

[RussianConservative]

Or mabye Bay of Jars?

[RussianConservative]

Siberia actually much different in climates/terrain then most American think...remember N to S it is 2,000 km.

[carpio]

BTTT

[SunkenCiv]

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