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Agreed. I think it's more possible it was Prussian (or Scythian) Celts who traveled to ancient China. bringing with them metal working and carts. Possibly even horseback riding.

Mummies of Urumchi (by Elizabeth Wayland Barber) is where I got the info the leads me to think this.

"Agreed. I think it's more possible it was Prussian (or Scythian) Celts who traveled to ancient China. bringing with them metal working and carts. Possibly even horseback riding."

It looks like the horse was domesticated, wheels and pants were invented in this area. It was impossible for these people to travel the deep steppes without the horse and wagons. The oldest bronze smelting site ever discovered is in Thailand.

"Mummies of Urumchi (by Elizabeth Wayland Barber) is where I got the info the leads me to think this."

Barber makes a firm connection between these people and the Celts at Hallstatt, Austria...5,000 miles and 1,000 years apart.(give or take some)

I suggest you read, The Tarim Mummies, by Victor Mair for a much fuller picture of this whole story.

Also, maybe these people were moving in the opposite direction than believed by most...think about that some.

I'm beginning to think that both the Caucasians and Mongoloids split from the Jomon - Ainu types who appear to have dominated large areas of Asia 10k+ years ago.

Agreed. I think it's more possible it was Prussian (or Scythian) Celts who traveled to ancient China. bringing with them metal working and carts. Possibly even horseback riding.

HUH?????? Prussia didn't come into existence until the late medieval period, as a frontier state of Brandenburg. How could it have been Prussians. ANd what are Prussian CELTS???? The Prussians were Germanics. Scythians too were not Celts. Scythians is also a generic term used by the Greeks just the same as we use the term barbarian -- it meant everyone who lived to the north of the Greeks and who were non-Greeks: so it included Indo-Europeans, Turkics etc.