The Tarim mummies : ancient China and the mystery of the earliest peoples from the West

Author(s)

• Mallory, J. P.
• Mair, Victor H.

Bibliographic Information

The Tarim mummies : ancient China and the mystery of the earliest peoples from the West

J.P. Mallory, Victor H. Mair

Thames & Hudson, 2008

• : pbk

Note

Originally published: 2000

First paperback edition 2008

Bibliography: p. 337-346

Includes index

Description and Table of Contents

Description

How did tartan-wearing Indo-Europeans come to be in Asia 2,000 years beforeWest and East admitted each other's existence? Describing their discovery of the Tarim Mummies and revealing the attempts of scientists to determine their ethnic identity, the authors examine all the evidence connected with the mummies, including textiles and languages of the Tarim region, in this acclaimed tour-de-force of scholarship.

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Details

• NCID: BB19771980
• ISBN:
  • 9780500283721
• Country Code: uk
• Title Language Code: eng
• Text Language Code: eng
• Place of Publication: London
• Pages/Volumes: 352 p.
• Size: 26 cm
• Classification:
  • DC22 : 931
• Subject Headings:
  • LCSH : Mummies -- China -- Takla Makan Desert
  • LCSH : Indo-Europeans -- China -- History
  • LCSH : Indo-Europeans -- China -- Race identity