[TigerLikesRooster]

I saw the documentary where the research of these men was described(Korean documentary.) They said that the distribution of Caucasoid skeletons(in Xiongnu elite' tombs) are not confined to the Western part of Mongolia, as we are first inclined to suspect. Those skeletons were found in W. Mongolia and E. Mongolia, while mostly Mongoloid skeletons are found in mid-Mongolia.

They also claimed that skeletons of ruling elites of ancient Silla Kingdom in S.E. Korea, according to their investigation, has paternal Mongoloid and maternal Caucasoid(Scythian is what they referred to.) They went on to speculate that the Caucasian Eastern Xiongu elites may have genetically connected to Silla elites.

[afraidfortherepublic]

You don’t have to test bones to posit ethnic mixes in Chinese history. Just look at some of the Xian warrior statues. Some of them bore Western faces when I saw the early excavations in 1983 — Turks? Indians?