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From a recent blogpost by Survive the Jive:
https://survivethejive.blogspot.com/2021/10/new-genetic-study-on-tarim-mummies-of.html
>the early mummies from Tarim itself, at least the 13 in this study which date from 2100–1700 BC, do NOT appear to be Tocharians or even, as I speculated in my video las year, Iranic speaking Aryans, rather an isolated refugia of ice-age like people predominantly descended from Ancient North Eurasians and West Siberian Hunter-Gatherers (WSHG themselves were 72.5% ANE, 7.5% West European Hunter-Gatherer, and 20% Ancient East Asian).
>Interesting that the mummies appear to be European in phenotype despite not descending from Indo-European bronze age steppe peoples who are autosomally like modern Europeans. As the paper says:
>“The Tarim mummies’ so-called Western physical features are probably due to their connection to the Pleistocene ANE gene pool,”
>So they look physically European because they have ANE DNA. This also answers the question of why some Ainu people from Japan, and some ancient native American skeletons like Kennewick man, look like Europeans;
>They all have ANE DNA and ANE were obviously Europoid.