06-14-2014, 08:14 AM
Hi, Michael
I got Barber's book when it first came out. Although it concentrates on the clothing and weaving, which she's expert in, the book also gives some history and the connection between these people as ancestors of the Tokarians... or Yue-chi as the Chinese called them. There's another book by Mair and Mallory which probably gives the connection back to Andronovo and Sintashta. That brocade is amazing, when you consider the time period. It's a precursor of the Scytho-Sarmatian "animal style."
Here is what I believe the oldest mummy, close to 1,500BC, called the Loulan Beauty, plus a reconsrution of her facial features:
[attachment=10150]LoulanBeauty.jpg[/attachment]
[attachment=10151]redhairedmummiesloubeaut.jpg[/attachment]
The Tokarians were instrumental in bringing Buddhism to China, and here is a Tokarian monk, red-haired and blue-eyed. Strange thing about the Buddha, his early followers called him the Sakyamuni, which translates to "the Saka monk." There's a neat fantasy movie on the Tarim and Silk Road, with some scenes shot in what looks like the Ili River Valley. It's called Warriors of Heaven and Earth. I think I'm in it as a great character-- Old Diehard.
[attachment=10152]Central_Asian_Buddhist_Monks2.jpg[/attachment]
I got Barber's book when it first came out. Although it concentrates on the clothing and weaving, which she's expert in, the book also gives some history and the connection between these people as ancestors of the Tokarians... or Yue-chi as the Chinese called them. There's another book by Mair and Mallory which probably gives the connection back to Andronovo and Sintashta. That brocade is amazing, when you consider the time period. It's a precursor of the Scytho-Sarmatian "animal style."
Here is what I believe the oldest mummy, close to 1,500BC, called the Loulan Beauty, plus a reconsrution of her facial features:
[attachment=10150]LoulanBeauty.jpg[/attachment]
[attachment=10151]redhairedmummiesloubeaut.jpg[/attachment]
The Tokarians were instrumental in bringing Buddhism to China, and here is a Tokarian monk, red-haired and blue-eyed. Strange thing about the Buddha, his early followers called him the Sakyamuni, which translates to "the Saka monk." There's a neat fantasy movie on the Tarim and Silk Road, with some scenes shot in what looks like the Ili River Valley. It's called Warriors of Heaven and Earth. I think I'm in it as a great character-- Old Diehard.
[attachment=10152]Central_Asian_Buddhist_Monks2.jpg[/attachment]
Alan J. Campbell
member of Legio III Cyrenaica and the Uncouth Barbarians
Author of:
The Demon's Door Bolt (2011)
Forging the Blade (2012)
"It's good to be king. Even when you're dead!"
Old Yuezhi/Pazyrk proverb
member of Legio III Cyrenaica and the Uncouth Barbarians
Author of:
The Demon's Door Bolt (2011)
Forging the Blade (2012)
"It's good to be king. Even when you're dead!"
Old Yuezhi/Pazyrk proverb
