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To: Candor7
"When the physical evidence of the various desicated corpses, cranial measurements, tatoos, is combined with their clothing, the only conclusion is that they were Celts. The scientrific problem is that we have no such complete physical remains from ancient Celtic culture to compare in Europe. "

Thanks, I have the video and all the books.

I tend to agree with you about the Celts...Elizabeth Barber does and excellent job of comparing the Fabrics of the Tarim Mummies with the ancient Celts found in the salt mines at Hallstadt, Austria...5,000 miles and 1,000 years later.

However...

Tarim Mummies Weren't Celts

9 posted on 08/16/2006 10:29:44 AM PDT by blam
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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?)
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