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DNA Reveals Red-Haired Chinese Mummies Come from Europe and Asia

36 points by diodorus 11y ago

contingencies 11y ago
Not news. They also have, famously, tartan-like fabrics.
- greglindahl 11y ago
  ... checkerboard fabrics are not unique to anywhere. This history [1] isn't very comprehensive but it gives you an idea of where they've been found... lots of non-Western European locations. 1: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tartan#Origins https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tartan#Origins
  - contingencies 11y ago
    Hey Greg! We met at one of those Linux events in SF 4 or 5 years ago. Congrats on selling Blekko. I agree with your point: it's probably more a default factor of the processes around weaving looms than specific conscious creation. Here in Asia the backstrap loom is the most widely deployed (in a pan-traditional-cultural-sphere sense), and linear designs are frequently deployed. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Loom#Back_strap_loom https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Loom#Back_strap_loom
    - contingencies 11y ago
      See also http://www.academia.edu/9974664/Looms_Weaving_and_the_Austronesian_Expansion http://www.academia.edu/9974664/Looms_Weaving_and_the_Austro...
gnoway 11y ago
Not really related to the article, but big thumbs down to messing with the browser buttons. I scrolled down two articles and then had to hit 'back' about 5 times to get off the page. I'd be interested to know who thinks this is good design or a good idea - does it get the site more ad impressions or something?
walterbell 11y ago
PBS has a 2005 historical overview of the politically/economically contested region of Uyhgur, http://www.pbs.org/frontlineworld/stories/china401/links.html http://www.pbs.org/frontlineworld/stories/china401/links.htm...
- contingencies 11y ago
  Uyghur is way late in the piece, post-Islam. Previously it was largely Buddhist with some Iranian beliefs, probably Tibetan Bons and Nestorian Christians for good measure. The British Museum has an awesome 20th century gold dinar (or similar arabic-inspired coinage) minted in Xinjiang, great to show unbelieving Chinese friends who think Xinjiang like Tibet and Yunnan are "inalienable parts of China".
  - powerapple 11y ago
    how is that anything to do with Tibet being part of China? You really like your Chinese friends I guess.
    - contingencies 11y ago
      Can't read English? Brainwashed nationalist with rich corrupt parents who was sent to the US to get an education because you couldn't compete domestically, I guess.
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36 points by diodorus 11y ago

contingencies 11y ago

Not news. They also have, famously, tartan-like fabrics.

greglindahl 11y ago
... checkerboard fabrics are not unique to anywhere. This history [1] isn't very comprehensive but it gives you an idea of where they've been found... lots of non-Western European locations. 1: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tartan#Origins https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tartan#Origins
- contingencies 11y ago
  Hey Greg! We met at one of those Linux events in SF 4 or 5 years ago. Congrats on selling Blekko. I agree with your point: it's probably more a default factor of the processes around weaving looms than specific conscious creation. Here in Asia the backstrap loom is the most widely deployed (in a pan-traditional-cultural-sphere sense), and linear designs are frequently deployed. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Loom#Back_strap_loom https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Loom#Back_strap_loom
  - contingencies 11y ago
    See also http://www.academia.edu/9974664/Looms_Weaving_and_the_Austronesian_Expansion http://www.academia.edu/9974664/Looms_Weaving_and_the_Austro...

gnoway 11y ago

Not really related to the article, but big thumbs down to messing with the browser buttons. I scrolled down two articles and then had to hit 'back' about 5 times to get off the page. I'd be interested to know who thinks this is good design or a good idea - does it get the site more ad impressions or something?

walterbell 11y ago

PBS has a 2005 historical overview of the politically/economically contested region of Uyhgur, http://www.pbs.org/frontlineworld/stories/china401/links.html http://www.pbs.org/frontlineworld/stories/china401/links.htm...

contingencies 11y ago
Uyghur is way late in the piece, post-Islam. Previously it was largely Buddhist with some Iranian beliefs, probably Tibetan Bons and Nestorian Christians for good measure. The British Museum has an awesome 20th century gold dinar (or similar arabic-inspired coinage) minted in Xinjiang, great to show unbelieving Chinese friends who think Xinjiang like Tibet and Yunnan are "inalienable parts of China".
- powerapple 11y ago
  how is that anything to do with Tibet being part of China? You really like your Chinese friends I guess.
  - contingencies 11y ago
    Can't read English? Brainwashed nationalist with rich corrupt parents who was sent to the US to get an education because you couldn't compete domestically, I guess.

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