# Di Cosmo 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

> Nicola Di Cosmo, 2002. 4 records on Mysteries Department cite it. Stands for the book's steppe-migration thesis, the leading reading before 2021.

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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.

**Tarim Basin mummies (Xiaohe)** Articledoi: **[10.1086/jar.58.2.3631047](https://doi.org/10.1086/jar.58.2.3631047)** Checked against the original0

## 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

[An early form of Tocharian, adopted from neighbours or spoken from the start.](https://mysteriesdept.com/mysteries/tarim-mummies/answers/ANS0D90EACR756H/an-early-form-of-tocharian-adopted-from-neighbours-or-spoken)

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[They descended from Afanasievo herders of the Altai, themselves derived from the Yamnaya of the…](https://mysteriesdept.com/mysteries/tarim-mummies/answers/ANS0D90E41M0WR4/they-descended-from-afanasievo-herders-of-the-altai)

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[The Tarim Basin mummies (Xiaohe)](https://mysteriesdept.com/mysteries/tarim-mummies)

The mystery article

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[Where did the people buried in the earliest Tarim Basin cemeteries come from?](https://mysteriesdept.com/mysteries/tarim-mummies/questions/QST0D90E32C1HN0/where-did-the-people-buried-in-the-earliest-tarim-basin)

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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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[Find it at doi.org](https://doi.org/10.1086/jar.58.2.3631047)

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