"I am curious medoraman- what is your take on the Chinese account of the White Huns. Being unlike the other Huns-and having "white bodies"? I have been reading about much older Europoid mummies found in western China, in much the same area. I wonder if they are related, I wonder how much such a find would rewrite the history of the contact between east and west?"
It was not just the Chinese, many writers both from China, Rome, and India differentiated between white and red huns. It was written that the red huns lived closer to India to the south, while the white huns lived to the north. This, along with some known cultural differences between the hepthalites and other hun tribes like the alchon and nezak, is why I believe the Chionites, (hepthalites), were not an identical group to other huns, and were most likely a mixed population.
It seems many ancient and 19th century writers mixed all of the huns together, and gave hepthalites, (for some reason the most popular name for central asian huns), all of the characteristics of any hunnic tribe.
The contact between east and west I believe has been rewritten. There were extensive contacts. Read Sogdian Traders where they detail large populations of Sogdians living and working in China, and even today by their names you can identify Persian and Sogdian ancentry in China. The sogdian letters greatly detail daily life of Sogdians living in China in ancient times.
No matter how some people try, humans have intermixed and coexisted much longer than most people believe.
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Posted 01/25/2013 12:40 pm
