WHO WERE THEY https://www.forbes.com/sites/kristinakillgrove/2015/07/18/these-red-haired-chinese-mummies-come-from-all-over-eurasia-dna-reveals/#201b6e593e2c Related neighbors in afanasievo culture? https://bmcbiol.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/1741-7007-8-15 https://www.academia.edu/2911477/The_Maitreya-samiti_and_Khotanese What happened to them https://studybuddhism.com/en/advanced-studies/history-culture/buddhism-in-mongolia/buddhism-in-the-mongol-regions-of-china-1994/tibetan-buddhism-among-dzungar-mongols-of-xinjiang-1994 WHAT WAS THE CLIMATE LIKE? | Dzungaria The Uvgun Monastery lies in the hills of the Khogno Khaan Natural Reserve and was built in 17th century by Zanabazar. In 1688, during the fighting between Western and Eastern Mongolians (Dzungaria and Khalkh Mongolia) after the collapse of the Mongol Empire, Dzungarian chieftain Galdan Bolshigt https://www.revolvy.com/main/index.php?s=Dzungar%20genocide https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oirats |