To: blam
"Baffled peasants in a windswept village in Gansu province are being described by Chinese newspapers as blond-haired, blue-eyed," and they were baffled because they were being so described. :'D
9 posted on
07/18/2004 9:07:59 PM PDT by
SunkenCiv
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To: SunkenCiv
"and they were baffled because they were being so described. :'D" They know.
From the excellent book The Tarim Mummies, page #281: "...Narin Infers that they (Caucasians) had been there at least since the Qijia Culture of c. 2,000BC and probably even earlier in the Yangshao Culture of the Neolithic. This would render the Tocharians as virtually native to Gansu (and earlier than the putative spread of the Neolithic to Xinjaing) and Narin goes so far as to argue that the Indo-Europeans themselves originally dispensed from this area westwards."
12 posted on
07/18/2004 9:30:29 PM PDT by
blam
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