The Tarim Basin, Tocharian, and Indo-European Origins: A View from the West

Статья // In: The Bronze Age and Early Iron Age Peoples of Eastern and Central Asia. — Washington, 1998. — Pp. 202-212. The Conference on the Bronze Age and Iron Age Peoples of Eastern Central Asia highlighted a number of important issues for the prehistory and historical linguistics of the area, which have a much wider resonance and relevance. When the Tarim Basin human finds are fully published and interpreted, and once they are set in their wider archeological context, they promise to offer important insights into the origins of the successive populations of Xinjiang, into the origins of the speakers of the Tocharian languages, and into their place within the wider perspective of the early Indo-European languages.