To: blam; SunkenCiv
"The items are surprisingly similar to the European Mousterian culture, and there is no essential difference between early stone items of the East and West," said Huang WeiwenCould these have been the Tocharians?
9 posted on
05/04/2007 11:44:40 AM PDT by
CarrotAndStick
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To: CarrotAndStick
Unlikely. The Tocharians were around in the Tarim Basin from roughly 2000 BC to 1000 AD.
We’re talking about tens of thousands of years earlier than that in this article.
13 posted on
05/04/2007 11:54:48 AM PDT by
Sherman Logan
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To: CarrotAndStick
"Could these have been the Tocharians?" Don't know. May have been the people who became the Jomon - Ainu- Emishi.
The oldest Jomon skeleton ever found was 13k years old and found in Japan. Professor Stephan Oppenheimer says that the oldest Mongoloid skeleton ever found is only 10k years old. I don't know who they were.
16 posted on
05/04/2007 11:59:57 AM PDT by
blam
To: CarrotAndStick
Could these have been the Tocharians?
A huge Question Mark still hangs over the Mousterians.
23 posted on
05/04/2007 12:18:12 PM PDT by
SunkenCiv
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