Okay, I went to the book. Here's one of the pertinent passages. "According to Chinese historical documents, the Han Chinese themselves began to move into Central Asia only around 120B.C., struggling to open up regular trade with the West. So historians would not particularly expect Chinese mummies in Central Asia in the second millenium B.C. But why not Mongoloid? Archeologists and linguists alike had assumed that the Mongol-type peoples had 'always' inhabited this entire area, ever since the spread of Homo sapiens sapiens around the globe at the end of the Ice Age forty thousand years ago. They also assumed central and northern Asia to be the general homeland of the Altaic linguistic group, which today includes Mongol and the various Turkic and Tungusic languages. (Northern Central Asia was of course the heartland from which emanated the great invasions of Turks and Mongols during our own millneium.) To find Caucasians was a surprise." Karen Seamstrix
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