The Princess of Xiaohe or Little River Princess is one of the Tarim mummies. She was found in 2003 at the Xiaohe Cemetery in Lop Nur, Xinjiang. She is also known as M11 for the tomb she was found in.
The Princess of Xiaohe in 2009
Princess of Xiaohe. Beijing Capital Museum
The "Princess of Xiaohe" wearing her funeral clothes
In archaeogenetics, the term Ancient North Eurasian refers to an ancestral component that represents the lineage of the people of the Mal'ta–Buret' culture and populations closely related to them, suc
Mal'ta–Buret' culture ivory figurines (c. 24,000 BP-c. 15,000 BP). Some of the figurines wear hooded overalls with decorative stripes.
Eurasian Steppe belt (turquoise)
Deer tooth pendant of an ANE woman, from Denisova Cave, dated circa 24,700 years BP.
The Ancient North Eurasian (ANE) network, consisted of several Paleolithic Siberian samples and contributed ancestry towards a wide variety of populations across Eurasia.