Posted by Jaysee on 3/5/2003, 9:09 am, in reply to "Re: LK knows how you meant it, and that dictionary definition is no lo"
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or are you conveniently overlooking the Tarim Basin Nordic mummies? Explain to me how they got there, and don't get ridiculous on me and lose all credibility by saying they trekked all the way from Scandinavia, or that they are native to the Takla Makan (Even the nationalistic Mongoloid people now inhabiting that area, while proudly claiming the ancient Nordics that they absorbed as their ancestors, concede that their origin lies elsewhere.) Most reasonable non-revisionistic archaeologists and linguists have come to the conclusion that these Nordic European-looking mummies left their home in the Ukraine and somehow ended up in the Tarim Basin, finally entering the pages of linguistic and anthropological history as the misnamed Tocharians (Arsi was their self-designation, a derivitive of *aryo- "leader, noble, aristocrat", the final definition itself being related, *aryo- is ultimately from the root *ar- "to fit, join", thus "those most fitting to rule". As to your usage of haplo-groups, well, that is of no consequence, because that portion of the DNA is climate variable and highly unstable, not to mention subject to all the whims and prejudices of those who interpret it. Eye-sighting is still the best judge of racial kinship, so Nordic Tarim mummies, Nordic Scandinavians and their descendants, Northern Europeans, result in a match.