[JimSEA]

I believe you are correct but Blam has me interested and I am finally getting Mallory & Mier's book on the Tarin Mummies. They seem to be pretty fair authorities and Mallory is the one who suggest the Medditerainian orign for the Tocharians if I am not mistaken.

I am interested in the Far East and Southeast Asia because we live there about 7-8 months out of the year (my wife is Thai though now a USA citizen and educated at Univ of Arizona). I am really very much a novice but many years ago, a friend was doing salvage work for the U of A along a proposed natural gas pipeline (near Oracle, AZ) and I was lucky enough to be able to help her on my days off -- that got me started).

[Jacob Kell]

Wasn't Tocharian in the Eastern or Satem branch of the Indo-European language family? Celtic was definetely in the Western or Centum branch. I'm not surprised if even back then the area was a melting pot. Central Asia is nothing if not a region where many different strains comingled and mixed, for probably thousands of years maybe.