Mhmm, did it also mention the dating and location of the site of this Tocharian A paper discovery? And what was the chapter and/or page number where all this was mentioned in the book ... perhaps I can have some of my contacts in the Chinese history field look it up. I am now very interested in verifying this; if true, it would make the Tocharian A script at least 600 years older than it is presently believed to be. Exciting, that would be.
It's contained in the book,The Tarim Mummies, linked in post #10.
In the book, The Tarim Mummies, about two thirds the way down page 321: "The oldest archaeological find of paper employed as a writing medium for writing dates to about AD 110 and our major source of early paper documents is, not suprisingly, the desiccating sands of the Tarim Basin."
Earlier on this same page it says that the Chinese were the earliest users of paper and that it was used for "clothes, hats, belts, armour, packing material, paper handkerchiefs, toilet paper, wallpaper, kites, currency(9th century), cards, umbrellas and etc. - and the Chinese were invariably the earliest to utilize them."
Later this evening I will look in my book, The Mummies Of Urumchi, for the source of the exact quote.