[SteveH]

ping

[blueunicorn6]

They was from Indianapolis.

[Rurudyne]

That mummy whose picture is in the article looks much better than Nancy Pelosi or Maxine Waters.

[texas booster]

But the latest research shows that instead, they were a genetically isolated group seemingly unrelated to any neighboring peoples.

Instead, it now seems the Tarim people descended entirely from Ancient North Eurasians (ANE), a once-widespread Pleistocene population that had mostly disappeared about 10,000 years ago, after the end of the last ice age. ANE genetics now survive only fractionally in the genomes of some present-day populations, particularly among Indigenous people in Siberia and the Americas, the researchers wrote.

Even more interesting that the Tarim mummies come from a people group that died out, but the genetics are still present in tundra dwellers.

They didn't travel as far as we all thought.

[pepsi_junkie]

Here's one.

Here's another. This one comes from Deleware but makes occasional trips to DC when absolutely necessary.

[blam]

Posted back in 2006:

Tocharians

Xinjiang Discovery Provides Intriguing DNA Link

[Boogieman]

“descended from Indigenous people, and not a remote branch of early Indo-Europeans”

Seeing how “Indo-European” is a linguistic/cultural category and not a genetic one, there’s no way that a genetic analysis can actually contradict this thesis.

It’s like saying “French people aren’t part of the Romance language group because genetically, they are Germanic”.

[Lonesome in Massachussets]

The rivers were fed by seasonal snow melt in the surrounding mountains, and often changed course when there had been an especially heavy snowfall over winter. When that happened, the ancient villages were effectively stranded far from water, and that may have contributed to the end of the Tarim Basin culture, she said. Today, the region is mostly desert. (Emphasis added)

Mostly desert in anticipation of global warming climate change four thousand years later.