Scotland's 'oldest' tartan found in Highlands bog

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5. In addition to the clay impressions,

there are the actual textiles themselves found with the Tarim Basin mummies in western China dating to around 4000 years ago. They are woolen and have a plaid, or tartan, pattern woven the same way as the tartans of Scotland. The wool comes from the same species of sheep found in Scotland. There was also a woman's conical felt hat that looks identical to what we call a witch's hat.

The mummies themselves were not Egyptian style mummies. They were preserved in dry desert graves. Several of the mummies have blond or brown hair and blue eyes.

DNA tests indicate that they were related to and partially descended from the Ancient North Eurasian culture about 40,000 years ago in Siberia, which spread East, West, and South, intermixing with other populations. They contributed genetically to the ancestry of Native Americans as well as northern Europeans and some Asian populations.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ancient_North_Eurasian#:~:text=The%20%22Ancient%20North%20Eurasian%22%20(,variety%20of%20populations%20across%20Eurasia.