[AnTiw1]

" This guy was probably of proto-Gothic extraction--also known as a "barbarian" steppe nomad. When he wasn't raping and pillaging, he was probably sitting in a ditch poking berries up his nose. "

apparently they've been finding a lot of european mummies in the gobi and along the old desert silk road in china...a civilization of traders

men women and children...many with blonde or red hair, and blue eyes

[Antoninus]

Indeed. But you shouldn't call such people "European" as they never lived in Europe. Their distant descendants may have moved there, but these people were steppe-dwellers with a long reputation for being raiders.

The Gothic History of Jordanes is a good place to read about them and their semi-mythical history.