Documentary about Uighur city of Kashgar and challenges it is facing.
I’ve been writing a number of posts related to Xinjiang recently. Its a huge provence of far western China where ancient caucasoid mummies were discovered not long ago with haplotype R1a which is distinctly European. Some of the mummies had textiles that were a twill plaid design very similar to those found in European archaeological sites.
Not only that, but DNA from an ancient tooth found in a cave just north of the region was found to be a previously unknown lineage of human ancestor, named Denisovan after the cave it was found in.
In 2013 the oldest ancient human ancestor DNA ever sequenced – a mind-blowing 400,000 years old – from remains found in Spain was found to be most similar to the Denisovan DNA.
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