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404: 444: 708:"Biological anthropological research indicates that the physical characteristics of those buried at Gumugou cemetery along the Kongque River near Lop Nur in Xinjiang are very similar to those of the Andronovo culture and Afanasievo culture people from Siberia in Southern Russia. This suggests that all of these individuals belong to the Caucasian physical type.¹² Additionally, excavations in 2002 by Xinjiang archaeologists at the site of Xiaohe cemetery, first discovered by the Swedish archaeologist Folke Bergman,¹³ uncovered mummies and wooden human effigies that clearly have Europoid features . According to the preliminary excavation report, the cultural features and chronology of this site are said to be quite similar to those of Gumugou.¹⁴ Other sites in Xinjiang also contain both individuals with Caucasian features and ones with Mongolian features. For example, this pattern occurs at the Yanbulark cemetery in Xinjiang, but individuals with Mongoloid features are clearly dominant.¹³ The above evidence is enough to show that, starting around 2,000 B.C., some so-called primitive Caucasians expanded eastward to the Xinjiang area as far as the area around Hami and Lop Nur. By the end of the second millennium, another group of people from Central Asia started to move over the Pamirs and gradually dispersed in southern Xinjiang. These western groups mixed with local Mongoloids¹⁶ resulting in an amalgamation of culture and race in middle Xinjiang east to the Tianshan. " 416: 548:
found "the Early Bronze Age Dzungarian individuals exhibit a predominantly Afanasievo ancestry with an additional local contribution, and the Early–Middle Bronze Age Tarim individuals contain only a local ancestry. The Tarim individuals from the site of Xiaohe further exhibit strong evidence of milk proteins in their dental calculus, indicating a reliance on dairy pastoralism at the site since its founding. The results do not support previous hypotheses for the origin of the Tarim mummies, who were argued to be Proto-Tocharian-speaking pastoralists descended from the Afanasievo or to have originated among the Bactria–Margiana Archaeological Complex or Inner Asian Mountain Corridor cultures. Instead, although Tocharian may have been plausibly introduced to the Dzungarian Basin by Afanasievo migrants during the Early Bronze Age, the earliest Tarim Basin cultures appear to have arisen from a genetically isolated local population that adopted neighbouring pastoralist and agriculturalist practices, which allowed them to settle and thrive along the shifting riverine oases of the Taklamakan Desert."
280: 392: 552: 352: 380: 29: 125: 54: 300:. The tomb complex appeared as a small oval mound, and the top of the burial mound was covered with a forest of erect wooden posts whose tops had been splintered by strong winds. Oar-shaped wooden monuments and wooden human figures were found at the site. The coffins were assembled over the bodies which had become mummified. Bergman excavated 12 burials and recovered approximately 200 artifacts that were transported back to Stockholm. Bergman noted the surprising resemblance in the clothing, especially the fringed loin-cloths, to 368: 340: 94: 61: 329:
posts, while the female burials were marked with the phallic posts. Bows and arrows were found with the male burials. The posts and coffins may be painted red. Each coffin is made of two massive pieces of plank assembled over the body, resembling an overturned boat, and then covered with cowhides. A few special tombs containing females have an extra rectangular coffin on top covered with layers of mud. Small masks of human faces and wooden human figures may accompany the burials. Twigs and branches of
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Each tomb is marked by a vertical poplar post near the upper end of the coffin. A skull or horn of an ox may be suspended from the post. The ends of the posts can be either torpedo-shaped or oar-shaped, representing the phallus and vulva respectively. The male burials were marked with the oar-shaped
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Fan Zhang et al. (2021) examined genomic data from five individuals dating to around 3000–2800 BC from the Dzungarian Basin and thirteen individuals dating to around 2100–1700 BC from the Tarim Basin, representing the earliest yet discovered human remains from North and South Xinjiang. Researchers
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The cemetery resembles an oblong sand dune. From it the remains of more than 30 people, the earliest of whom lived around 4,000 years ago, have been excavated. The bodies, which have been buried in air-tight ox-hide bags, are so well-preserved that they have often been referred to as the
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The Xiaohe cemetery complex contains the largest number of mummies found at any single site in the world to date. The bodies are likely to have been transported significant distances for burial at Xiaohe, as no contemporaneous settlement is known to have existed near the tomb complex.
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The Xiaohe remains have attracted considerable attention, particularly because of their "Caucasoid" appearance. Analysis of the Xiaohe population's genetic makeup has revealed that they represented a genetic bottleneck, essentially derived from
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The Xiaohe culture is known from two key sites, the Xiaohe Cemetery itself (Xiaohe Archaeological Team, 2004; Xiaohe Archaeological Team, 2005; Xiaohe Archaeological Team, 2007) and the cemetery of Gumuguo (Han, 1986; Wang, 2014) in the same
1219:. Reports from the Scientific Expedition to the Northwestern Provinces of China under the Leadership of Dr. Sven Hedin / Scientific Expedition to the North-Western Provinces of China. Vol. Publication 7. Stockholm: Thule. 690:: "These mummies, especially the prehistoric Bronze Age 'Caucasoid' mummies, such as the 'Beauty of Loulan', have attracted extensive interest among scientists regarding who were these people and where did they come from." 465:
Genetic analyses of the mummies showed that the maternal lineages of the Xiaohe people originated from both East Asia and West Eurasia, whereas all of the paternal lineages had links to modern populations of West Eurasia.
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Li, Chunxiang; Gao, Shizhu; Xu, Yang; Wu, Sihao; Wen, Shaoqing; Zhu, Hong; Zhou, Hui; Robbeets, Martine; Kumar, Vikas; Krause, Johannes; Warinner, Christina; Jeong, Choongwon; Cui, Yinqiu (27 October 2021).
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Chunxiang Li, Hongjie Li, Yinqiu Cui, Chengzhi Xie, Dawei Cai, Wenying Li, Victor H Mair, Zhi Xu, Quanchao Zhang, Idelis Abuduresule, Li Jin, Hong Zhu and Hui Zhou (2010).
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Bergman, Folke (1945). "Travels and Archaeological Field-work in Mongolia and Sinkiang: a Diary of the Years 1927–1934". In Hedin, Sven; Bergman, Folke (eds.).
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Mitochondrial DNA analysis, which reveals the maternal ancestry, showed that maternal lineages carried by the Xiaohe people include West Eurasian haplogroups
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Li, C.; Li, H.; Cui, Y.; Xie, C.; Cai, D.; Li, W.; Mair, V. H.; Xu, Z.; Zhang, Q.; Abuduresule, I.; Jin, L.; Zhu, H.; Zhou, H. (2010).
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Chunxiang Li, Chao Ning, Erika Hagelberg, Hongjie Li, Yongbin Zhao, Wenying Li, Idelisi Abuduresule, Hong Zhu and Hui Zhou (2015).
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A local hunter named Ördek found the site around 1910. Later, in 1934, with Ördek's help, Swedish explorer and archeologist
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Burial XHM66 from Xiaohe cemetery, with boat-shaped coffin and mummified remains dressed in woollen garments.
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Between 2009 and 2015, the remains of 92 individuals found at the Xiaohe Tomb complex were analyzed for
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According to a comment posted on 18 July 2014 by Hui Zhou, one of study's co-authors, the Xiaohe
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lineages belonged to a specifically European branch rather than the more common Central Asian
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located the site which he named Xiaohe, "little river", after a nearby tributary of the
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Mair, V. H. (2006). "The rediscovery and complete excavation of Ördek's Necropolis".
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The site of the cemetery; the vertical posts indicate the tomb locations
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slightly to the north is also considered as part of the Xiaohe culture.
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Archaeological Researches in Sinkiang. Especially in the Lop-Nor Region
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Ursprünge der Seidenstraße. Sensationelle Neufunde aus Xinjiang, China
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The mummies of the Xiaohe Cemetery were essentially derived from
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History of an Expedition in Asia 1927–1935. Part IV: 1933–1935
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Reconstruction of a female individual from Xiaohe Cemetery.
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In October 2003, an excavation project, organized by the
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Major National Historical and Cultural Sites in Xinjiang
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Betts, A.; Jia, P.; Abuduresule, I. (1 March 2019).
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Tarim Basin
Taklamakan Desert
Xiaohe is located in Continental Asia
Xiaohe is located in China
China
Xinjiang
40°20′11″N 88°40′21″E / 40.3364°N 88.6725°E / 40.3364; 88.6725
Chinese
pinyin
Bronze Age
Lop Nur
Xinjiang
China
Gumugou cemetery
Tarim mummies
Ancient North Eurasians

Folke Bergman
Kaidu River
Bronze Age
Denmark
Xinjiang Cultural Relics and Archaeology Institute
ephedra
Xiaohe cemetery (fourth layer).
Xiaohe cemetery, the Princess of Xiaohe (female mummy with European features).
Princess of Xiaohe
Xiaohe cemetery (boat coffins).
Xiaohe cemetery (double-layered coffin).
Burial XHM66 from Xiaohe cemetery, with boat-shaped coffin and mummified remains dressed in woollen garments.

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