[JimSEA]

The South Korean discoveries also bring up the continuing question as to what these Tarim people's relationship to Chinese culture historically was. Chinese Culture is, was and has always been a composit of many distinct similar cultures dominated by those called Han since the dynasty of the same name. By self portrail in carvings and pottery, among other means, the cultures were ethnically Chinese, Mongolian, austro-asian, Turkic and Ughar (in the far West), etc.. The interior of Asia has been thought to be unimportan,

Of course, this is terribly oversimplified but just the same, these dicoveries in combination with the continuing debate over the location and travels of the Indo-European peoples, suggest that the supposed great emptyness of the of interior Asia is critically important. Very little study has been done in this unstable region but we aren't going to know critical information until we can fit it in.

[blam]

"Chinese Culture is, was and has always been a composit of many distinct similar cultures dominated by those called Han since the dynasty of the same name."

There are numerous (Chinese) poems lamenting the green eyes of the Han emperors...and, other sources mention that the Han emperors' 'magic men' had red hair.