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Message: <blockquote data-quote="John Morrow" data-source="post: 2274061" data-attributes="member: 27012">That's why I suggested freckles.  I have a Chinese friend who has them, they are fairly easy to spot with just the face showing, and they are not unattractive but they are unusual on a Chinese person. Those remains were likely from an Indo-European group that brought the Tocharian (an early Indo-European) language to far Western China.  Their hair color and cloth suggests "Celtic" culture (red and blonde hair, tartan cloth, etc.) but they were probably more accurately a branch of a "proto-Celtic" Indo-European people (the Celts didn't actually exist as a group at that point).  It's difficult to tell how far their genetic or cultural influence spread beyond far Western China and the current local population of that region certain looks quite Chinese now.  But there are certainly plenty of ways to get distinctly European features into the ancestry of a Chinese girl (not only this angle but various European explorers and sailors who visited China over the preceeding centuries).Elizabeth Wayland Barber's The Mummies of Urumchi is a good place to start on this topic.  As a warning, this is another one of those topics that gets used and abused by racists to support crackpot theories so Google searchers beware.</blockquote>