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Review of The Tarim Mummies: Ancient China and the Mystery of the Earliest Peoples from the West, by J. P. Mallory and Victor H. Mair
Nicola Di Cosmo, 2002. Journal of Anthropological Research 58(2): 279-281.
A review of Mallory and Mair's 2000 book, which argued that the Bronze Age Tarim mummies were descended from Indo-European-speaking migrants from the steppe and were ancestral to the Tocharian speakers recorded in the first millennium AD.
What it's used for here
Stands for the book's steppe-migration thesis, the leading reading before 2021.
Cited by on this site 4 records
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The Tarim Basin mummies (Xiaohe)
MYSThe mystery article
Cite it
Di Cosmo, N. (2002). Review of The Tarim Mummies: Ancient China and the Mystery of the Earliest Peoples from the West, by J. P. Mallory and Victor H. Mair. Journal of Anthropological Research 58(2): 279-281. https://doi.org/10.1086/jar.58.2.3631047
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Di Cosmo, Nicola. “Review of The Tarim Mummies: Ancient China and the Mystery of the Earliest Peoples from the West, by J. P. Mallory and Victor H. Mair.” Journal of Anthropological Research 58(2): 279-281 (2002). https://doi.org/10.1086/jar.58.2.3631047.