At my other weblog, two reviews of books on Eurasia. First, Empires of the Silk Road: A History of Central Eurasia from the Bronze Age to the Present. Second, China's Cosmopolitan Empire: The Tang Dynasty.
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From the American Museum of Natural History, if you are in New York City at the right time:
THE AMERICAN MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY ANNOUNCES
TRAVELING THE SILK ROAD: ANCIENT PATHWAY TO THE MODERN WORLD
November 14, 2009 - August 15, 2010
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Traveling the Silk Road: Ancient Pathway to the Modern…
A western Eurasian male is found in 2000-year-old elite Xiongnu cemetery in Northeast Mongolia:
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From Different Matrilineal Contributions to Genetic Structure of Ethnic Groups in the Silk Road Region in China:
Although our samples were from the same geographic location, a decreasing tendency of the western Eurasian-specific haplogroup frequency was observed, with the highest frequency present…