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Bronze Age and Iron Age Populations -- Eastern Central Asia | |
The following sources are recommended by a professor whose research specialty is the ancient history of Eastern Central Asia. |
· Barber, E.J.W. The Mummies of Ürümchi. W.W. Norton, 1999.
· Baumer, Christoph. Southern Silk Road: In the Footsteps of Sir Aurel Stein and Sven Hedin. Orchid Press, 2000.
· Mair, Victor H., ed. The Bronze Age and Early Iron Age Peoples of Eastern Central Asia. 2 vols. The Institute for the Study of Man; The University of Pennsylvania Museum Publications, 1998. Vol. 1: Archeology, Migration and Nomadism, Linguistics; vol. 2: Genetics and Physical Anthropology, Metallurgy, Textiles, Geography and Climatology, History, and Mythology and Ethnology. Contains 47 scholarly papers, plus a substantial introduction, appendices, maps, hundreds of illustrations, index.
· Mair, Victor H. "Mummies of the Tarim Basin." Archaeology, 48.2 (March/April, 1995), 28-35.
· Mallory, J.P., with Victor H. Mair. The Tarim Mummies: Ancient China and the Mystery of the Earliest Peoples from the West. Thames and Hudson, 2000.
· Samolin, W. East Turkestan to the Twelfth Century: A Brief Political Survey. Mouton, 1964.
· Adams, Douglas Q. "Mummies." Journal of Indo-European Studies, 23.3-4 (Fall/Winter, 1995), 399-413.
· Allen, Thomas B. Photographs by Reza. "The Silk Road's Lost World." National Geographic, 189.3 (March, 1996), 44-51.
· Anthony, David W. "Tracking the Tarim Mummies: A Solution to the Puzzle of Indo-European Origins?" Archaeology, 54.2 (March/April, 2001), 76-84.
· Anthony, David W., and Nikolai B. Vinogradov. "Birth of the Chariot," Archaeology, 48.2 (March/April, 1995), 36-41.
· Barber, E.J.W. "A Weaver's-Eye View of the Second Millennium Tarim Basin Finds." Journal of Indo-European Studies, 23.3-4 (Fall/Winter, 1995), 347-355.
· Barber, E.J.W. Prehistoric Textiles: The Development of Cloth in the Neolithic and Bronze Ages, with Special Reference to the Aegean. Princeton University Press, 1991.
· Barber, E.J.W. Women's Work: The First 20,000 Years: Women, Cloth, and Society in Early Times. W.W. Norton, 1994.
· Barber, Paul T. "Mummification in the Tarim Basin." Journal of Indo-European Studies, 23.3-4 (Fall/Winter, 1995), 309-318.
· Binghua, Wang. "A Preliminary Analysis of the Archeological Cultures of the Bronze Age in the Region of Xinjiang." Anthropology and Archeology of Eurasia, 34.4 (Spring 1996), 67-86. Translated by David Cohen from Sichou zhi lu kaogu yanjiu (Archeological Studies of the Silk Road) (Xinjiang Renmin, 1993), pp. 146-163. Originally published in Xinjiang shehui kexue (Xinjiang Social Studies), 4 (1985), 50-61.
· Bower, Bruce. "Early Cross-Cultural Ties Arise in China." Science News, 150.16 (October 19, 1996), 245.
· Bower, Bruce. "Indo-European Pursuits: Scientific Paths Diverge in the Quest for Ancient Eurasians." Science News, 147.8 (February 25, 1995), 120-125.
· Cardona, George. "On Attitudes toward Language in Ancient India." Sino-Platonic Papers, 15 (January, 1990), 19 pages.
· Cavalli-Sforza, L. Luca. Genes, Peoples, and Languages. North Point (Farrar, Straus and Giroux), 2000.
· Cavalli-Sforza, L. Luca, Paolo Menozzi, and Alberto Piazza. The History and Geography of Human Genes. Princeton University Press, 1994.
· Chang, Tsung-tung. "Indo-European Vocabulary in Old Chinese: A New Thesis on the Emergence of Chinese Language and Civilization in the Late Neolithic Age." Sino-Platonic Papers, 7 (January, 1988), 56 pages.
· Charpentier, Jarl. "Die ethnographische Stellung der Tocharer." Zeitschrift der Deutschen Morgenländischen Gesellschaft, 71 (1917), 347-388.
· Chen, Kwang-tzuu, and Fredrik T. Hiebert. "The Late Prehistory of Xinjiang in Relation to Its Neighbors." Journal of World Prehistory, 9.2 (1995), 243-300.
· Ch'en, Chien-wen. "Yuezhi minzu ji qi yu zaoqi Dong-Xi wenhua de guanxi (The Yuezhi People and Their Relationship to Early East-West Communications)." Taiwan Normal University, Institute of History, M.A. Thesis, 1996.
· Dani, A.H., and V.M. Masson, eds. History of Civilizations of Central Asia. Vol. I: The Dawn of Civilization: Earliest Times to 700 B.C. UNESCO, 1992.
· Debaine-Francfort, Corinne. "Archéologie du Xinjiang des Origines aux Han. Première Partie." Paléorient, 14.1 (1988), 5-29.
· Debaine-Francfort, Corinne. "Archéologie du Xinjiang des Origines aux Han. IIème Partie." Paléorient, 15.1 (1989), 183-213.
· Debaine-Francfort, Corinne, and Abduressul Idriss, eds. Keriya, Mémoires d'un Fleuve: Archéologie et Civilisation des Oasis du Taklamakan. Findakly, 2001.
· Di Cosmo, Nicola. "Ancient Inner Asian Nomads: Their Economic Basis and Its Significance in Chinese History." The Journal of Asian Studies, 53.4 (November, 1994), 1092-1126.
· Di Cosmo, Nicola. "Ancient Xinjiang between Central Asia and China." Anthropology and Archeology of Eurasia, 34.4 (Spring, 1996), 87-101.
· Drège, Jean-Pierre, and Emil M. Bührer. The Silk Road Saga. Translated from the French Route de la Soie (1986) by Adrian Room. Facts on File, 1989.
· Duclayan, Gina. "Scientists Study Mysterious Chinese Mummies." Today's Science on File, 4.12 (August, 1996), 274-276.
· Francalacci, Paolo. "DNA Analysis of Ancient Desiccated Corpses from Xinjiang." Journal of Indo-European Studies, 23.3-4 (Fall/Winter, 1995), 385-398.
· Good, Irene. "Notes on a Bronze Age Textile Fragment from Hami, Xinjiang with Comments on the Significance of Twill." Journal of Indo-European Studies, 23.3-4 (Fall/Winter, 1995), 319-345.
· Hadingham, Evan. "The Mummies of Xinjiang." Discover, (April, 1994), 68-77.
· Harmatta, János, B.N. Puri, and G.F. Etemadi, eds. History of Civilizations of Central Asia. Vol. II: The Development of Sedentary and Nomadic Civilizations: 700 B.C. to A.D. 250. UNESCO, 1994.
· Heine-Geldern, Robert. "Das Tocharerproblem und die Pontische Wanderung." Jahrbuch für Universalgeschichte, 2.2 (1951), 225-255, plus 10 plates.
· Hudson, Mark. "Lost Caucasoids of the Tarim Basin." In Paul G. Bahn, ed., Tombs, Graves and Mummies. Weidenfeld and Nicolson, 1996, pp. 152-153.
· Jettmar, K. "Die Tocharer, ein Problem der ethnischen Anthropologie?" Homo, 47.1-3 (1996), 34-42.
· Kamberi, Dolkun. "The Three Thousand Year Old Chärchän Man Preserved at Zaghunluq: Abstract Account of a Tomb Excavation in Chärchän County of Uyghuristan." Sino-Platonic Papers, 44 (January, 1994), 15 pages.
· Kangxin, Han. "The Study of Ancient Human Skeletons from Xinjiang, China." Sino-Platonic Papers, 51 (November, 1994), 9 pages plus 4 figures.
· Mair, Victor H. "The Bronze Age and Iron Age Peoples of Eastern Central Asia: Progress Report." Early China News, 8 (1995), 1, 5-11.
· Mair, Victor H. "Language and Script; Biology, Archeology, and (Pre)history." International Review of Chinese Linguistics, 1.1 (1996), 31-41 (bibliography on pp. 47-50).
· Mair, Victor H., ed. The Mummified Remains Found in the Tarim Basin. A collection of papers in The Journal of Indo-European Studies, 23.3-4 (Fall/Winter, 1995). Includes articles by the editor, Paul T. Barber, Irene Good, E.J.W. Barber, XU Wenkan, J.P. Mallory, Paolo Francalacci, Douglas Q. Adams, Edwin G. Pulleyblank, James Opie, and Donald Ringe.
· Mair, Victor H. "Prehistoric Caucasoid Corpses of the Tarim Basin." Journal of Indo-European Studies, 23.3-4 (Fall/Winter, 1995), 281-307.
· Mair, Victor H. "Progress Report for Project Entitled 'A Study of the Genetic Composition of Ancient Desiccated Corpses from Xinjiang (Sinkiang), China.'" Early China News, 6 (Fall, 1993), 1, 4-9.
· Mair, Victor H. "Old Sinitic 'myag,' Old Persian 'magus,' and English 'Magician.'" Early China, 15 (1990), 27-47.
· Mair, Victor H. "Whose Ancestors Are They?" Anthropology Newsletter, 38.1 (January, 1997), 9-11.
· Mallory, J.P. In Search of the Indo-Europeans: Language, Archaeology and Myth. Thames and Hudson, 1989.
· Mallory, J.P. Report: "Conference on the Bronze Age and Iron Age Peoples of Eastern Central Asia, University of Pennsylvania Museum of Anthropology and Archaeology, Philadelphia, April 19-21, 1996." UCLA Friends and Alumni of Indo-European Studies Newsletter, 6.1 (August, 1996), 8-9.
· Mallory, J.P. "Speculations on the Xinjiang Mummies." Journal of Indo-European Studies, 23.3-4 (Fall/Winter, 1995), 371-384.
· Millward, James A. "Spotlight on the Silk Road." Archaeology, 46.4 (July-August, 1993), 24-25, 68.
· Narain, A.K. "Indo-Europeans in Inner Asia." In Denis Sinor, ed., The Cambridge History of Early Inner Asia. Cambridge University Press, 1990, pp. 151-176, 445-449.
· O'Brien, Ellen. "Mystery of the Mummies." The Philadelphia Inquirer (April 15, 1996), F1, F9.
· Opie, James. "Xinjiang Remains and 'The Tocharian Problem.'" Journal of Indo-European Studies, 23.3-4 (Fall/Winter, 1995), 431-437.
· Powledge, Tabitha M., and Mark Rose. "The Great DNA Hunt: Genetic Archaeology Zeroes in on the Origins of Modern Humans." Archaeology, 49.5 (September-October, 1996), 36-44.
· Pugachenkova, G.A., S.R. Dar, R.C. Sharma, and M.A. Joyenda, in collaboration with H. Siddiqi. "Kushan Art." In János Harmatta, ed., History of Civilizations of Central Asia, Vol. II, UNESCO, 1994, pp. 331-395.
· Pulleyblank, Edwin G. "Chinese and Indo-Europeans." Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society, (1966), 9-39.
· Pulleyblank, Edwin G. "Why Tocharians?" Journal of Indo-European Studies, 23.3-4 (Fall/Winter, 1995), 415-430.
· Reid, Howard. In Search of the Immortals: Mummies, Death and the Afterlife. Headline, 1999; St. Martin's, 2001.
· Ringe, Donald. "Tocharians in Xinjiang: The Linguistic Evidence." Journal of Indo-European Studies, 23.3-4 (Fall/Winter, 1995), 439-444.
· Rolle, Renate. The World of the Scythians. University of California Press, 1989. Translated by F.G. Walls from the German version, Die Welt der Skythen. C.J. Bucher, 1980.
· Spindler, Konrad. The Man in the Ice: The Discovery of a 5,000-Year-Old Body Reveals the Secrets of the Stone Age. Harmony, 1994. Translated by Ewald Osers from the original German version, Mann im Eis. C. Bertelsman, 1994; copyright 1993 by University of Innsbruck.
· Time-Life Books, ed. Early Europe: Mysteries in Stone. A volume in the Lost Civilizations Series. Time-Life Books, 1995, pp. 149-157. Includes an excellent presentation on the ancient people of the Tarim Basin and surrounding areas in the context of their relationship to European civilization.
· Wenkan, XU. "The Discovery of the Xinjiang Mummies and Studies of the Origin of the Tocharians." Journal of Indo-European Studies, 23.3-4 (Fall/Winter, 1995), 357-369.
· Wenkan, XU. "Summary Report on the 'International Conference on the Bronze Age and Iron Age Peoples of Eastern Central Asia.'" Xiyu Yanjiu (Western Regions Studies), 3 (1996), 77-85.
· Wilford, John Noble. "Mummies, Textiles Offer Evidence Of Europeans in Far East." The New York Times, (May 7, 1996), C1, C8.
· Xinjiang Weiwuer Zizhiqu Bowuguan (Xinjiang Uighur Autonomous Regional Museum), ed. Xinjiang Weiwuer Zizhiqu Bowuguan (Xinjiang Uighur Autonomous Regional Museum). Wenwu Chubanshe; Kôdansha, 1991.
· Xinjiang Weiwuer Zizhiqu Shehui Kexue Yuan Kaogu Yanjiusuo (Xinjiang Uighur Autonomous Region Academy of Social Sciences Institute of Archeology), ed. Xinjiang Gudai Minzu Wenwu (Cultural Relics of the Ancient Peoples of Xinjiang). Wenwu Chubanshe, 1985.
· Xinjiang Weiwuer Zizhiqu Shehui Kexue Yuan Kaogu Yanjiusuo (Xinjiang Uighur Autonomous Region Academy of Social Sciences Institute of Archeology), ed. Xinjiang Kaogu Sanshi Nian (Thirty Years of Xinjiang Archeology). Xinjiang Renmin Chubanshe, 1983.
· Zhao, Feng, and Zhiyong Yu, eds. Legacy of the Desert King: Textiles and Treasures Excavated at Niya on the Silk Road. China National Silk Museum; Xinjiang Institute of Archaeology, 2000.
· Zhimin, A.N. "Shilun Zhongguo de Zaoqi Tongqi (A Tentative Discussion on China's Early Copper/Bronze Implements)." Kaogu (Archaeology), 12 (1993), 1110-1119.
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