[Fedora]

I'm not able to see the picture you posted on FR with my browser, but if I right-click on "Properties" and cut-and-paste the link that comes up it takes me here:

Mummies Unwrapped

Is this the map you were trying to post, showing a yellow band running from the Beijing area through the Asian steppes into the Balkans:

http://library.thinkquest.org/J003409/media/!map.jpe?tqskip1=1

?

I'm assuming the yellow band shows where mummies of various sorts have been found? If so that's quite interesting, as the yellow area is the same band through which some authors (e.g. Carlo Ginzburg in Ecstasies) have argued that Asian shamanic influence penetrated Europe via the Scythians, and presumably other steppe peoples would've used this same route as well.

[blam]

"http://library.thinkquest.org/J003409/media/!map.jpe?tqskip1=1"

Yes, that is the one I posted....it has disappeared for me too. Remember last week we were discussing Keremchi (the drug-dealers, lol)...I believe it is in the yellow shaded area up above the word 'Mongolia' (on the map). There were/are Caucasians all through that area in ancient times.

[blam]

"(e.g. Carlo Ginzburg in Ecstasies) have argued that Asian shamanic influence penetrated Europe via the Scythians, and presumably other steppe peoples would've used this same route as well."

Could be. I don't 'do' witches and such. I will add that I've read that the Han Emperors had red-headed men as their 'magic' men. (Whatever a 'magic' man is.)

[CobaltBlue]

Loulan's on the Silk Road. It wouldn't be surprising to find anything from any Silk Road culture anywhere along the Silk Road.

Like finding stuff in a city near an Interstate, or in a port city.

Human beings get around, especially when motivated by trade.