Mair Victor H. (Ed.). The Bronze Age and Early Iron Age Peoples of Eastern Central Asia: Volumes 1 and 2

Institute for the Study of Man, 1998. — 923 p.Archeological, genetic, linguistic, metallurgical, and climate studies into the Bronze Age and early Iron Age peoples of Eastern Central Asia.Volume 1Archeology
An Zhimin - Cultural Complexes of the Bronze Age in the Tarim Basin and Surrounding Areas
Elena E. Kuzmina - Cultural Connections of the Tarim Basin People and Pastoralists of the Asian Steppes in the Bronze Age
David W. Anthony - The Opening of the Eurasian Steppe at 2000 BCE
Asko Parpola - Aryan Languages, Archeological Cultures, and Sinkiang: Where Did Proto-Iranian Come into Being and How Did It Spread?
Fredrik T. Hiebert - Central Asians on the Iranian Plateau: A Model for Indo-Iranian Expansionism
Shui Tao - On the Relationship between the Tarim and Fergana Basins in the Bronze Age
He Dexiu - A Brief Report on the Mummies from the Zaghunluq Site in Charchan County
J. P. Mallory - A European Perspective on Indo-Europeans in Asia
Colin Renfrew - The Tarim Basin, Tocharian, and Indo-European Origins: A View from the WestMigration and Nomadism
Karl.Jettmar - Early Migrations in Central Asia
Natalia I. Shishlina and Fredrik T. Hiebert - The Steppe and the Sown: Interaction between Bronze Age Eurasian Nomads and Agriculturalists
Jeannine Davis-Kimball - Tribal Interaction between the Early Iron Age Nomads of the Southern Ural Steppes, Semirechiye, and Xinjiang
Claudia Chang and Perry A. Tourtellotte - The Role of Agro-pastoralism in the Evolution of Steppe Culture in the Semirechye Area of Southern Kazakhstan
during the Saka I Wusun Period ( 600 BCE-400 CE)
Tzehuey Chiou-Peng - Western Yunnan and Its Steppe AffinitiesLinguistics
Eric P. Hamp - Whose Were the Tocharians?-Linguistic Subgrouping and Diagnostic Idiosyncrasy
Werner Winter - Lexical Archaisms in the Tocharian Languages
Georges-Jean Pinault - Tocharian Languages and Pre-Buddhist Culture
Douglas Q. Adams - On the History and Significance of Some Tocharian B Agricultural Terms
Alexander Lubotsky - Toch arian Loan Words in Old Chinese: Chariots, Chariot Gear, and Town Building
Don Ringe, Tandy Warnow, Ann Taylor, Alexander Michailov, and Libby Levison - Computational Cladistics and the Position of Tocharian
Juha Janhunen - The Horse in East Asia: Reviewing the Linguistic Evidence
John Colarusso - Languages of the Dead
Kevin Tuite - Evidence for Prehistoric Links between the Caucasus and Central Asia: The Case of the Burushos
Lin Meicun - Qilian and Kunlun- The Earliest Tokharian Loan-words in Ancient Chinese
Penglin Wang - A Linguistic Approach to Inner Asian Ethnonyms
William S-Y. Wang - Three Windows on the PastVolume 2Genetics and Physical Anthropology
Paolo Francalacci - DNA Analysis on Ancient Desiccated Corpses from Xinjiang (China): Further Results
Tongmao Zhao - The Uyghurs, a Mongoloid Caucasoid Mixed Population: Genetic Evidence and Estimates of Caucasian Admixture in the Peoples
Living in Northwest China
Han Kangxin - The Physical Anthropology of the Ancient Populations of the Tarim Basin and Surrounding AreasMetallurgy
Ke Peng - The Andronovo Bronze Artifacts Discovered in Toquztara County in Ili, Xinjiang
Jianjun Mei and Colin Shell - Copper.And Bronze Metallurgy in Late Prehistoric Xinjiang
Emma C. Bunker - Cultural Diversity in the Tarim Basin Vicinity and Its Impact on Ancient Chinese Culture
Katheryn M. Linduff - The Emergence and Demise of Bronze-Producing Cultures Outside the Central Plain of ChinaTextiles
E. J. W. Barber - Bronze Age Cloth and Clothing ofthe Tarim Basin: The Kroran (Loulan) and Qumul (Hami) Evidence
Irene Good - Bronze Age Cloth and Clothing of the Tarim Basin: The Charchan EvidenceGeowaphy and Climatology
Harold C. Fleming - At the Vortex of Central Asia: Mummies as Testimony to Prehistory
Kenneth J. Hsu - Did the Xinjiang Indo-Europeans Leave Their Home Because of Global Cooling?History
Michael Puett - China in Early Eurasian History: A Brief Review of Recent Scholarship on the Issue
E. Bruce Brooks - Textual Evidence for 04c Sino-Bactrian ContactMythology and Ethnology
Denis Sinor - The Myth of Languages and the Language of Myth
C. Scott Littleton - Were Some of the Xinjiang Mummies 'Epi-Scythians'? An Excursus in Trans-Eurasian Folklore and Mythology
Chen Chien-wen - Further Studies on the Racial, Cultural, and Ethnic Mfinities of the Yuezhi