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AT a meeting of the Royal Anthropological Institute on Tuesday, Mar. 27, Sir Arthur Keith gave an account of a people who lived in the eastern part of Chinese Turkestan in the earlier centuries of our era. His account was based on five skulls which were obtained by Sir Aurel Stein during his third expedition (1913-15) to central Asia. The explorer found these skulls in sites within the eastern and southern fringe of the Taklamakan desert-sites now dried up and forsaken, but irrigable and inhabited when the Tarim basin of Chinese Turkestan formed part of the corridor along which in past times Chinese trade flowed towards the west.
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Past and Present Peoples of Chinese Turkestan. Nature 121, 555 (1928). https://doi.org/10.1038/121555a0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/121555a0