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The early Chinese annals
record the presence of
the red-haired nomads to
the north of the
peaceful settlements of
the Yellow River, and
there still remain
paintings which
faithfully record the
presence of both the
blond-Andite and the
brunet-Mongolian types
in the Tarim basin of
long ago
(79:1.8). |
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Chinese writers describe
ruddy complexioned,
blue-eyed, fair-haired
peoples in Central Asia
at the time of the
maximum dispersion of
Iranian speech just
before the beginning of
our era, and
ancient paintings from
the buried cities of the
Tarim basin depict
distinctively European
blonde types beside the
native Mongoloids.
—V.
Gordon Childe
(1926) |
