Mummy find in China desert stirs ethnic debate [Caucasian Features]

The Times of India ^ | 17 March 2010 | Nicholas Wade

[wildbill]

Considering the amazing amount of (phalli? phalluses?) entombed with the women, one can surmise that they didn’t contemplate an afterlife reunited with their husband’s or lovers.

Or, terrible thought, perhaps that’s exactly what they thought—no 72 male virgins there—and wanted to be prepared.

Or they were placed next to the bodies just in case they weren’t dead and came back to life in the coffin.

I tell ya, the theories you can come up with when explaining archeological artifacts are limitless.

[stripes1776]

But there are other upright symbols that may have meant other things. Who were these people and what did they believe?

Exactly. How will archeologists interpret out tombstones 10,000 years from now? They stick up in the air don't they? What will they say about the Christians meeting to eat bread and drink wine? A drunken food orgy for gluttons?

[rdl6989]

I’ve laid awake at night wondering what future archaeologists will say about us and how much of it will be utter nonsense.

[marsh2]

http://www.nd.edu/~nsl/Lectures/phys178/pdf/chap3_3.pdf

DNA sampling was done on eleven mummies. Only 1 was allowed to be exported for testing and showed Haplogroup H largely (40%) associated with people of European origin (15% Near East population.)

I find the textile information very interesting.

http://encyclopedia.stateuniversity.com/pages/21723/tartan.html
Origins
“Textile analysis of fabric from Indo-European Tocharian graves in Western China has shown similarities to the Iron Age civilizations of Europe dating from 800 BC, including woven twill and tartan patterns strikingly similar to Celtic tartans from Northwest Europe. Tartan patterns have been used in Scottish, Irish, Northumbrian (north east English) and Welsh weaving for centuries....”

http://www.absoluteastronomy.com/topics/Tartan
“Origins

“Today tartan may be mostly associated with Scotland, however the earliest evidence of tartan is found far afield from the British Isles. According to the textile historian E. J. W. Barber, the Hallstatt culture was the predominant Central European culture from the 8th to 6th centuries BC , developing out of the Urnfield culture of the 12th century BC and followed in much of Central Europe by the La Tène culture...Also, textile analysis of fabric from Indo-European graves in Western China has shown it to be similar to the Iron Age....Tartan-like leggings were found on the “Cherchen Man”, a 3,000 year-old mummy found in the Taklamakan Desert in western China. The Tarim mummies are a series of mummies discovered in the Tarim Basin in present-day Xinjiang, China, which date from 1800 BCE to 200 CE...”

The Tocharian corpses are 4000 year old. Textile analysis indicates that their tartans are similar to Celtic ones of a century later. Could these folk be the ancestors of the Celts?

[concentric circles]

A Host of Mummies, a Forest of Secrets

The Sand Dune Forgotten By Time (Caucasian Mummies In China - More)

[Beowulf9]

“I’ve laid awake at night wondering what future archaeologists will say about us and how much of it will be utter nonsense...”

Clearly these people, though seperated by strange groupings called Democrats and Republicans, were all worshipping the same demigod, known only by the symbol “O”.

[blam]

Thanks CT.

For those of you who are interested, read the below linked thread for a better understanding:

On The Presence Of Non-Chinese At Anyang

[1010RD]

Pre-industrial global warming?

[wolfcreek]

Obviously patrons of a sex tourism company gone bad.

[GSP.FAN]

“Europe dating from 800 BC, including woven twill and tartan patterns strikingly similar to Celtic tartans from Northwest Europe. Tartan patterns have been used in Scottish, Irish, Northumbrian (north east English) and Welsh “

That would also explain the large phallic symbols or as us Irish say “Average”...
Slainte

Beannachtaí na Féile Pádraig.

[marsh2]

I blush.

[SunkenCiv]

The NY Times story linked here:

[marsh2]

Sure those aren’t celts just giving everyone the finger?

[SunkenCiv]

They are Celts, they’re wearing their kilts, and that isn’t the Finger... ;’)

[SunkenCiv]

http://news.scotsman.com/getEdFrontImage.aspx?ImageID=456162
http://news.scotsman.com/news/DNA-experts—reveal-China39s.6168665.jp