To: blam
"It seems they were eastern Mediterraneans" I read the thread you referenced, but the article named "Tarim Mummies Weren't Celts" cites only racial characteruistics. The Celts had no very well defined racial characteristics, and it is wrongly assumed that the Celts had o be Nordic physically, the tarim Basin Mummies were "protoNordic," a mixture with Southern peoples. This mixed racial inheritance is characteristic of Celtic culture, which is why ot lasted so long, and eventually was responsible for their ultimate disunity and demise in Europe. They were open to other races and intermarriage.
The clothing, dress, tatoos, and fabric would make them recognizable as Celts. Its interesting to see people work so hard to avooid the right conclusion, right down to attempting to establish a defined subrrace to explain the Tarim Mummies. Modern science and history work very hard to keep the Celtic underpinnings of modern society obtuse and obscure. Its actually quite amusing to anyone who is familiar with the dynamic.
I mean if you saw a person dressed like a cowboy walking down the street, you would not exclaim," There is a protid Nordic with slightly abherrant facial features that come from Eskimos, he must be from Hawaii. You would take a closer look and realize that the " Dallas Cowboys" pin on his shirt is a dead give away,which Tarim Mummy researchers refuse to do.
These folks are no more,"Eastern Mediterranean," than my cat is.
14 posted on
08/16/2006 11:09:54 AM PDT by
Candor7
(Into Liberal flatulance goes the best hope of the West, and who wants to be a smart feller?)
To: Candor7
Another thread that may be of interest to you:
Tocharians
16 posted on
08/16/2006 11:18:54 AM PDT by
blam
To: Candor7
18 posted on
08/16/2006 11:23:42 AM PDT by
blam
To: Candor7
Very good post.
My dad's side is Scots/Ulster/Welsh/Austrian.
[pre-German Austrian, specifically]
My mom's side is Scots and Danish.
They're both tall, blond, blue-eyed people, as is my sister.
I'm am shorter with red hair and the very distinctive greenish-gold eyes of my Welsh kinfolk.
"Archaelogically-speaking", if you compared me to them you'd think I had nothing to do with them.
I look more like my 3rd and 4th cousins than I do my own parents. I'm a genetic throwback to a certain branch of my Celtic roots but of Celtic stock, nonetheless but I imagine that "scientists" comparing me to my direct ancestors would classify me as "other".
[my parents already do, anyway]...;D
19 posted on
08/16/2006 1:13:29 PM PDT by
Salamander
(And don't forget my Dog; fixed and consequent.........)
To: Candor7
BTWm the Celts did live in the "Eastern Mediterranean," areas too.
That is where the name Galatia in Asia Minor came from (the land of Galls/Celts)
45 posted on
09/25/2006 3:23:56 PM PDT by
A. Pole
(TR: "Of all forms of tyranny the least attractive and the most vulgar is the tyranny of mere wealth")
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