Bronze Age Tarim mummies aren't who scientists thought they were
When you purchase through links on our site , we may pull in an affiliate commission . Here ’s how it play . The inscrutable Tarim ma ofChina ’s westerly Xinjiang neighborhood are relics of a singular Bronze Age culture descended from Indigenous citizenry , and not a remote arm of other Indo - Europeans , according to new genetic inquiry . The new study upends more than a one C of assumptions about the inception of the prehistorical people of the Tarim Basin whose course preserved human remains , desiccated by the desert , indicate to many archaeologists that they were descended from Indo - Europeans who had migrate to the region from somewhere far west before about 2000 B....