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Continuing Mis-Identification of the Altai Culture
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That northern route in your attachment is very similar to the one I found in the book “Traders and Raiders of China’s Northern Frontier”, the old Fur Route but it also had an extension further east following the Amur Valley into China. (Roughly following the Trans-Siberian Railway route. I remember Otto Maenchen-Heffen, in his book on the Huns wrote that there was a “Europoid”/Indo-Iranian/Tocharian presence further east than the Tamin/Gansu region in the Ordos long before the Hsiung-nu made it their home and may have become a sub-tribe of the Hsiung-nu when Modu became Shanyu after ordering the death of his father in 209 BC.

   
Drawing of a dagger pommel with round eyes and moustache found north of Beijing.

   
 Image of a plaque with Europoid looking man found in Ordos region 3rd Century BC.

   
 Another image of a plaque featuring two men settling their differences in a wrestling match while their horses look on. They have long wavy hair. 3rd Century BC.

 Of course these images could represent Yuechi people as they seemed to occupy the Tarim and shared Gansu with the Wusun at this early stage and who held Modu as a hostage. Supposedly Modu was not the favourite son and while he was a hostage of the Yuechi his father attacked the Yuechi in the hope that he would be killed. So maybe the Yeuchi did share pasture with the Hsiung-nu before the rise of Modu.

 Finds of zoomorphic ornaments and plaques featuring men who definitely look Indo-Iranian (Ordos culture) were common. So maybe Herodotus got the meaning of Arimaspi wrong and the tribes further east were meant to mean “horse lovers” instead of being “one-eyed”.  Smile

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Michael Kerr
Michael Kerr
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RE: Continuing Mis-Identification of the Altai Culture - by Michael Kerr - 01-13-2016, 05:40 PM

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