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The Tarim basin was inhabited by Iranics coming from the west and south. You can see that in languages like Saka Khotanese. Uyghurs also carry a lot of BMAC ancestry so does the ancient Wusun people another hint that the Tarim basin was later inhabited by Iranics which do have steppe ancestry.
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Side note: I am not going to discuss the politics with you (real expert) but ANE isn't something particular North European. Indians carry much more ANE than Northern Europeans so does some indigenous Siberians.
You obviously missed my point. Once again, the authors in my opinion intentionally didn't mention that Proto-Indo-Europeans had 50% ANE. Furthermore, I didn't claim that ANE is particularly Northern European but that they do have considerable ANE (25%) ancestry that can't be ignored. Thus my issue is with how the researchers try to sell Tarim folks as autochthon "East Asians"/Chinese that have no connection to Europeans, whatsoever. So tell me, why do the authors operate this way if they have no agenda? Besides, I wrote this: "Nevertheless, contrary to what the authors claim, their findings didn't refute anything about the Tocharian origin hypotheses."
So, where did I exactly deny that Iranics lived in the Tarim Basim? Not me but the geneticists of this paper are saying that their findings “support no hypothesis involving substantial human migration from steppe or mountain agropastoralists for the origin of the Bronze Age Tarim mummies.”
“the material culture and genetic profile of the Tarim mummies from around 2100 bc onwards call into question simplistic assumptions about the link between genetics, culture and language”
“the greater IAMC, which spans the Hindu Kush to Altai mountains, may have alternatively functioned as a geographic arena through which cultural ideas, rather than populations, primarily moved”
I ask you politely to read my comments more carefully.