"The Tocharians were the easternmost speakers of an Indo-European language in antiquity, inhabiting the Tarim basin in what is now Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region, northwestern People's Republic of China. Their unique culture spanned from the 1st millennium BCE to the end of the 1st millennium CE. Their language is called Tocharian. "
I always resent this political correct dating crap. When I get the chance I always enquire "Do you mean about a thousand years from the Birth of Our Lord to about a thousand years after?" Never fails to draw resentful glances.