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The problem of loanwords from indoeuropean to old chinese is very old and it is discussed in any good book about lndoeuropean linguistics. But we can find the discussion in several papers, for example in "Tocharian Loan Words in Old Chinese: Chariots, Chariot Gear, and Town Building", by...

I want to dispute also we can speak about "pure ANE". I do not think we can assimilate Afontova Gora 2,3 with Mal'ta too easy... ANE itself was a complex phenomenon. About tocharians, linguistics seem provide the clues that an indoeuropean Kentum language gave several loanwords to bronze age...

I'm accusing the paper is polithically biased, too. We have to focus on the data, but we have to focus also on contradictions with previous results of old papers, because such contradictions are very evident. Therefore, who can guarantee that the data are reliable? And we can not neglect...

How can you be so sure? I see several difficulties. 1) ANE is not an exclusively Asian phenomenon; as several users said, Yamna, Andronovo and Afanasevo and also modern europeans own a significant quantity of ANE ancestry. 2) Even assuming that no "political bias" is present in the recent...

Thank you for your advices :-) But I was not the first to speak about "Northern Europeans" look. Another user has introduced this topic, I only answered about it. Anyway, if someone brings up "northern europeans", it is well to observe that they are not homogeneous by a "physical anthropology"...

However nobody seems able to explain to me how is it possibile to make compatible following two papers from chinese scientists: * "Evidence that a West-East admixed populationlived in the Tarim Basin as early as the earlyBronze Age" (2010) * "The genomic origins of the Bronze Age Tarim Basin...

Uhm... I know at least two photos female mummies with blonde hair. On the web. You can find them on "mummipedia": they are clearly similar to Northern Europeans of cromagnonoid type (Dalo-Falish, in early literature). Several other photos can be found on printed books (as "In Search of the...

Again, I fully agree with you.

On wikipedia, about Tarmi mummies you can read: "Chinese historian Ji Xianlin says China "supported and admired" research by foreign experts into the mummies. "However, within China a small group of ethnic separatists have taken advantage of this opportunity to stir up trouble and are acting...

I fully agree with you. I think that at the basis of this politicization there is the Uighur question.

NO! Number 1) hair of "princess" preserved their red color for 4000 years, and in the last one or two years thet changed color? And face features too? .... Number 2) I DO NOT want speak about Ainu or other people in this Thread concerning Tarim mummies. NUmber 3) we have two papers about...

Mia cara Angela, sono italiano, non diciamo sciocchezze. Tu lo sei? Non sono in grado di mostrare foto, perche' non ho ancora raggiunto i 20 post. Mi sono limitato a fare un semplice battuta basata sul fatto che nelle vecchie foto i capelli della "principessa di Xiaohe" sono evidentemente...

IMHO, in old photos this mummy (the "princess of Xiaohe") showed red hair. By the way, did she dye her hair?

Uh? I can't understand...

In this paper "Evidence that a West-East admixed populationlived in the Tarim Basin as early as the earlyBronze Age" (2010), you can read : Y chromosome haplogroup profiling and distributionFifteen individuals’ AMG amplicons were obtained fromthe 20 Xiaohe individuals (whose mtDNA was...

Morever, I have seen several images of so called "Princess of Xiaohe". Old photos (several years ago) seems not to represent the same mummy of most recent photos (some dayes ago)... Several differences seem to be present in the nose, hair color, eye orbits, chin ... Unfortunately I am newbie...

In this article "these-red-haired-chinese-mummies-come-from-all-over-eurasia-dna-reveals" on forbes (sorry I am not able to post links) I read: "Considering the presence of haplogroups H and K in the Xiaohe people and the geographical distribution of shared sequences, we conclude that the west...