History

[OC Richard]

Here's a little discussion about some aspects of Indo-European mtDNA

http://www.eupedia.com/forum/threads...ed-settlements

I could be foggy on this, but I seem to recall that ancient hunters travelled from east to west just below the ice sheet, bringing central Asian DNA to northern Europe.

From a purely visual and non-scientific viewpoint I do notice many northern Europeans having the epicanthic fold to a greater or lesser degree.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Epicanthic_fold

Actress Anna Torv, born in Scotland but of Estonian ethnicity



Actor Barry Keoghan, Irish





Actress Jennifer Lawrence. I don't know her ethnicity but she has the epicanthic fold (which the makeup artists usually try to obscure for some reason)

[Walkman]

Actress Jennifer Lawrence. I don't know her ethnicity but she has the epicanthic fold (which the makeup artists usually try to obscure for some reason)

Jennifer Lawrence is English, German, Irish, Scottish, and a wee bit o' the French according to this source.

[figheadair]

Those that want to know more I thoroughly recomment Dr., Elizabeth Wayland Barber's The Mummies of Ürümchi (New York: W. W. Norton; London: Macmillan, 1999).

I had the pleasure of meeting the author some years ago and to discuss the Urumchi tartans and in particular, their construction which are a mixture of twill and plain weave. Dr. Barber was puzzeled by reason for the difference, I observed that we see the same in historic Highland tartans and that this difference seems to have been due, in part at least, to gender use and that women's clothing was often made from plain weave tartan. Dr. Barber took that idea away but I don't know if she ever persuded it.

[Walkman]

Here's a National Geographic video on the subject: Tamarin Basin Mummies.

[figheadair]

Here's a National Geographic video on the subject: Tamarin Basin Mummies.

Link doesn't work but this one does - China's Dessert Mummies Documentary on the Taklamakan Mummies

[Blupiper]

Wow, that picture of the little Uighur girl looks just like my daughter did at about fifteen months. Red hair, brown eyes (they have since faded to gold) and very similar facial shape. Genetics is always such an interesting topic, in my opinion.

JMB

[OC Richard]

The other day I visited a local museum which is hosting an exhibit which has travelled around a bit, of mummies from several areas and covering a wide time period.

http://www.bowers.org/index.php/exhi...s-of-the-world

I was disappointed that they didn't have any of those Chinese mummies.

[OC Richard]

Link doesn't work but this one does - China's Dessert Mummies Documentary on the Taklamakan Mummies

Wow I never thought to eat mummies after a meal...