[PaulKersey]

BTW, I suspect that the Xiongnu people may be related to the Huns and Picts.

That sounds complicated to me. Are not the Picts just another tribe of celts? And the Huns are Slavics?

[LostTribe]

>Are not the Picts just another tribe of celts?

"The Romans called this pre-Celtic people Pictii, or "Painted," although Claudius' words are proof that (as claimed by many historians), the ancient Picts actually tattooed their bodies with designs. To the non-Roman Celtic world of Scots and Irish and the many tribes of Belgic England and Wales they were known as "Cruithni" and for many centuries they represented the unbridled fury of a people who refused to be brought under the yoke of Rome or any foreign invader."
 

[blam]

"The Huns themselves were a people of mystery and terror. Arriving on the fringes of the Roman Empire in the late fourth century, riding their war horses out of the great steppes of Asia, they struck fear into Germanic Barbarians and Romans alike. Some scholars believe that they had earlier moved against the Chinese Empire but were turned away and swept towards Rome instead. As they approached the Black Sea and conquered the Ostrogoths, they also drove the Visigoths across the Danube into the Roman Empire and caused the crisis that led to the astounding defeat of the Roman army under the Emperor Valens at Adrianople in 378 AD."

There was a Chinese 'connection' with both the Huns and Picts.

[blam]

"Many say that Picts are just a Celtic tribe with a strong element of earlier nations. But anthropological information we have opposes to that, and so does the linguistic material (see below). We know from Ancient Greek and Latin works that Celts who invaded Italy in the 5th century and Greece in the 3rd, were tall, blue-eyed and fair-haired men. Greeks even thought they were Hyperboreans, northern people, characters of several Greek myths. As for those Picts Romans met in Britain they were short and dark-headed.

There also appears to be a connection to the Inuits. There is an Asian component.

[blam]

Xiongnu and Yuezhi
(These folks interfaced with the Caucasian (proto-Celtics) folks (The Mummies Of Urumchi) found in east central China, Tarim and Turpin Basins.