# Neighbouring groups passed on the practices and the animals and crops through trade and contact, with little…

> Most likely: Neighbouring groups passed on the practices and the animals and crops through trade and contact, with little or no intermarriage.

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Answer · Tarim Basin mummies (Xiaohe)

# Neighbouring groups passed on the practices and the animals and crops through trade and contact, with little…

Neighbouring groups passed on the practices and the animals and crops through trade and contact, with little or no intermarriage.

**Most likely** Answers **1** questionPublished0

## Where it stands

**Most likely** Its tests partly supported it: three pieces of evidence for, none against. It needs two reviews to be accepted.

## What it predicts

- The domestic animals and crops descend from populations of neighbouring regions (Dzungaria, Central Asia, Gansu).
- Material culture shows borrowed elements from several directions.

## What would rule it out

- Evidence that a migrant group brought the economy and then disappeared without genetic trace in the cemeteries.

## Evidence 3 for · none against

[Afanasievo herders were present in the Dzungarian Basin at the time.](https://mysteriesdept.com/mysteries/tarim-mummies/evidence/EVD0D90E86E4FCB/afanasievo-herders-were-present-in-the-dzungarian-basin-at)

Established

FOR

[Dairying is present from the founding of the cemetery, without lactase persistence.](https://mysteriesdept.com/mysteries/tarim-mummies/evidence/EVD0D90E7PT2Y7K/dairying-is-present-from-the-founding-of-the-cemetery)

Established

FOR

[The kefir bacteria belong to the Tibetan lineage, pointing to a link east and south as well as west.](https://mysteriesdept.com/mysteries/tarim-mummies/evidence/EVD0D90E7YM56M0/the-kefir-bacteria-belong-to-the-tibetan-lineage-pointing-to)

Supported

FOR

## The questions it answers

[How did a genetically isolated people come to herd cattle and sheep, make cheese, weave wool and grow wheat and millet?](https://mysteriesdept.com/mysteries/tarim-mummies/questions/QST0D90E3A63KN5/how-did-a-genetically-isolated-people-come-to-herd-cattle)

Most likelyNeighbouring groups passed on the practices and the animals and crops through trade and contact, with little…

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Mysteries Department. (2026). Neighbouring groups passed on the practices and the animals and crops through trade and contact, with little… [Answer ANS0D90E7F052Q1]. https://mysteriesdept.com/r/ANS0D90E7F052Q1
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