http://www.metafilter.com/tags/Taklimakan Posts tagged with 'Taklimakan' at MetaFilter. Thu, 14 Feb 2013 19:00:22 -0800 Thu, 14 Feb 2013 19:00:22 -0800 en-us http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss 60 http://www.metafilter.com/125011/The%2DKangjiashimenji%2DPetroglyphs <a href="http://www.slate.com/articles/health_and_science/science/2013/02/prehistoric_pornography_chinese_carvings_show_explicit_copulation.single.html">The World’s Oldest Pornography.</a> <a href="http://csen.org/Articles_Reivews/Kangjiashimenji%20/Kanj-Text/Kanj.html">The Kangjiashimenji Petroglyphs in the Tien Shan Mountains</a>: <a href="http://crushevil.co.uk/blog/?p=1057">A Fertility Ritual Tableau</a>. tag:metafilter.com,2013:site.125011 Thu, 14 Feb 2013 19:00:22 -0800 Archaeology China Eurasian Fertility Ithyphallic Kangjiashimenji Mountains Petroglyphs Ritual Taklimakan TianShan Xinjiang homunculus http://www.metafilter.com/22566/Kalmykia%2Dand%2DTakla%2DMakan%2Dmigrations <a href="http://www.economist.com/displayStory.cfm?story_id=455893">The republic of Kalmykia</a> is a unique place. A member of the Russian Federation, it was settled in 1608 by Mongols from what is now the Chinese province of Xinjiang. It is the only state in Europe where Buddhism is the dominant religion, and probably the only state in the world whose <a href=http://www.kalmykiaembassy.ru/html/egov.html>president</a> claims to have created an "extra-sensory field" around it. Kalmykia's spiritual leader, <a href=http://www.whitecranefilms.com/film/trials.html>Telo Rinpoche</a>, is an American from Philadelphia who was appointed by the Dalai Lama. There has been a long history of migrations between Europe and Asia. In one really intriguing case, <a href=http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/chinamum/taklamakan.html>3000-year-old mummies</a> with reddish-blond hair, Caucasian features and wearing tartans similar in design to Celtic ones, were <a href=http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/transcripts/2502chinamum.html>discovered in the Takla Makan Desert</a> in Xinjiang. If these ancient Caucasians were absorbed by the population of Xinjiang, then perhaps the Kalmyk migration might have unknowingly been a return to their ancestral lands. <small>[First link via <a href=http://www.nutcote.demon.co.uk/nutlog.html>plep</a>].</small> tag:metafilter.com,2002:site.22566 Sun, 29 Dec 2002 15:04:01 -0800 Archaeology Kalmykia mummies TaklaMakan Taklimakan Xinjiang homunculus