Written by Afsheen Sharifzadeh, a graduate of Tufts University focusing on Iran and the Caucasus. The goal of this article is to present the Tocharian narrative in a broad linguistic framework, with a focus on affinities to earlier Proto-Indo-European. Europoid-type "Tarim Mummies" discovered in Xinjiang, China, circa ~1800 BC. The Tocharians are described as having full beards, red or …
