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<p>[QUOTE="Curtisimo, post: 3054946, member: 83845"]Thank you for the link [USER=75937]@Roman Collector[/USER] . Very cool!! I do believe that the Yuezhi are equated with the Tocharians by many scholars. In fact in some of the literature they are referred to as Yuezhi / Tocharian. The best that I can work out is that most of the early textural evidence for them is Chinese and refers to them as Yuezhi (and the Kushan tribe as Guishuang)</p><p><br /></p><p>Some Greek sources refer to a people in the vicinity of Bactria that they called Τοχάριοι (Tocharians) which might refer more to one specific tribe of the Yuezhi? The Archeological evidence seems to be more associated with this name for some reason but many scholars as far as I can tell think the two names likely refer to the same people. Those Celts got around!</p><p><br /></p><p>Edit to add: Here is a sketch of a Yuezhi man ca. 100 BC found at Khalchayan showing distinctly Caucasian features.</p><p><a href="https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Khalchayan" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Khalchayan" rel="nofollow">https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Khalchayan</a></p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]765279[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="Curtisimo, post: 3054946, member: 83845"]Thank you for the link [USER=75937]@Roman Collector[/USER] . Very cool!! I do believe that the Yuezhi are equated with the Tocharians by many scholars. In fact in some of the literature they are referred to as Yuezhi / Tocharian. The best that I can work out is that most of the early textural evidence for them is Chinese and refers to them as Yuezhi (and the Kushan tribe as Guishuang) Some Greek sources refer to a people in the vicinity of Bactria that they called Τοχάριοι (Tocharians) which might refer more to one specific tribe of the Yuezhi? The Archeological evidence seems to be more associated with this name for some reason but many scholars as far as I can tell think the two names likely refer to the same people. Those Celts got around! Edit to add: Here is a sketch of a Yuezhi man ca. 100 BC found at Khalchayan showing distinctly Caucasian features. [url]https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Khalchayan[/url] [ATTACH=full]765279[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]
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