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06 Jun 2008, 12:04 pm

I knew that the red haired Irish is of European origin, the native Irish were the Black Irish,
who are black haired and pale skinned, my own ancestors on my fathers side are Danish
and Icelanders, were some of my family gets their red hair, its sort of common knowledge
in Iceland that the red heads were of Irish origin. The red haired gene is very old, it is seen
in many different people or cultures, such as in Afghanistan with the aryan traits of olive
skinned, green eyed and red hair, there are also examples of red hair in a caucasian horse
culture people who lived in western China, the Tocharians, where the exhumed body of a
women with red hair. The celts did not originate in westren Europe, but did come from the
plains of central Europe and Asia, these peoples were very nomadic.

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Here is an example of the Tocharian people

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Tocharian donors", possibly the "Knights with Long Swords" of Chinese accounts, depicted with light hair and light eye color and dressed in Sassanian style. 6th century AD fresco, Qizil, Tarim Basin. Graphical analysis reveals that the third donor from left is performing a Buddhist Vitarka Mudra gesture. These frescoes are associated with annotations in Tocharian and Sanskrit made by their painters.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tocharians
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Celts