# Mallory 2000: The Tarim Mummies: Ancient China and the Mystery of the Earliest Peoples from the West

> J. P. Mallory, Victor H. Mair, 2000. 1 records on Mysteries Department cite it. The steppe-migration thesis that the 2021 genomes tested.

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# The Tarim Mummies: Ancient China and the Mystery of the Earliest Peoples from the West

J. P. Mallory, Victor H. Mair, 2000. _Thames & Hudson, London_.

The standard pre-genomic account of the Tarim mummies, arguing that the Bronze Age people of the basin came from Indo-European-speaking migrants of the steppe and were ancestral to the Tocharian speakers of the first millennium AD.

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Mallory, J. P., & Mair, V. H. (2000). The Tarim Mummies: Ancient China and the Mystery of the Earliest Peoples from the West. Thames & Hudson, London. https://search.ub.tum.de/vufind/Record/DE-604.BV013253784
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