This is a very interesting development. I knew that Indo-Europeans had traditionally lived in the Tarim basin but I did not know they lived as far northeast as Yenisei, Siberia. The culture is known for mummification and death masks, many of which survive:
Here is a mummy and a CT scan image of the underlying face:
and here is some crazy reindeer mask they had:
The Tashtyk Culture
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Interesting. Second from the top looks a bit like Som-Pong.
el rey del mambo
I suppose. My face changes a lot.
And today I found what seems to be their ancestors from 1000 years earlier, the Pazyryk culture and the Tagar culture:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pazyryk_culture
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tagar_culture
And also the Karasuk culture, their ancestors from 1000 years before the Pazyryks and Tagars:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Karasuk_culture
These are all archaeological cultures but got me reading about the historical population they correspond to, the Saka:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saka
And check out this crazy Chad:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/An_Lushan
^The stuff movies are made about yet nobody knows about it.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pazyryk_culture
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tagar_culture
And also the Karasuk culture, their ancestors from 1000 years before the Pazyryks and Tagars:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Karasuk_culture
These are all archaeological cultures but got me reading about the historical population they correspond to, the Saka:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saka
And check out this crazy Chad:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/An_Lushan
^The stuff movies are made about yet nobody knows about it.
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