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100 1 $aBarber, E. J. W.,$d1940-$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n88265444
245 14 $aThe mummies of Ürümchi /$cElizabeth Wayland Barber.
260 $aNew York :$bW.W. Norton & Company,$c1999.
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300 $a240 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates :$billustrations (some color) ;$c25 cm
336 $atext$btxt$2rdacontent
337 $aunmediated$bn$2rdamedia
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
505 00 $g1.$tMystery Mummies --$g2.$tA Man with Ten Hats --$g3.$tPlus Three Women and a Baby --$g4.$tThe "Beauty of Loulan" --$g5.$tThe Early Explorers --$g6.$tTokharians and Other Hairy Barbarians --$g7.$tHami and Hallstatt --$g8.$tThe Oasis Hoppers and Their Kin --$g9.$tPulses in the Heart of a Continent --$g10.$tSands of the Silk Road, Sands of Time.
520 $aIn the museums of Urumchi, the wind-swept regional capital of the Uyghur Autonomous Region in Western China, a collection of ancient mummies date back as far as 4,000 years - contemporary to the famous Egyptian mummies, but even more beautifully preserved, especially their clothing. Surprisingly, these prehistoric people are not Asian but Caucasoid - tall and large-nosed and blond with thick beards and round eyes (probably blue). What were these blond Caucasians doing in the heart of Asia?
520 8 $aWhere did they come from and what language did they speak? Might they be related to a "lost tribe" of Indo-Europeans known from later inscriptions? Few gifts are to be found in the graves of Urumchi, making it difficult for archaeologists to pinpoint cultural connections from clues offered by pottery and tools. But their clothes - woolens that rarely survive more than a few centurieshave been preserved as brightly hued as the day they were woven.
520 8 $aElizabeth Wayland Barber describes these remarkable mummies, their clothing, their sheepherding ways, and their path to this remote, mysterious, and forbidding place. She pieces together their history and peculiar Western connections from both what she saw in Urumchi and the testimony of explorers who traveled along the Silk Road a century earlier.
650 0 $aMummies$zChina$zXinjiang Uygur Zizhiqu.
650 0 $aBronze age$zChina$zXinjiang Uygur Zizhiqu.
650 0 $aTextile fabrics, Prehistoric$zChina$zXinjiang Uygur Zizhiqu.
651 0 $aTarim Basin (China)$xAntiquities.
651 0 $aXinjiang Uygur Zizhiqu (China)$xAntiquities.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2008117457
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