This document discusses the ancient origins and migration paths of various groups including the Tocharians, Balts, Aryans, and Finnic peoples. It traces their movements from the Urals region starting around 12,000 BC through Asia and back to Europe along trade routes like the Silk Road. Key points discussed include the proposed splitting of Finnic from Proto-Indo-European around 9,000 BC, the domestication of horses around 4,400 BC, Tocharian settlements in western China dated to around 1,900 BC, and the migrations of groups like the Balts, Goths, Scythians, and Saxons back to Europe between 800 BC to 1200 AD.

1. Ancient Origins
and
Migration Paths
of
Tocharians
.Balts & Aryans
Greg MacDonald
macd@yahoo.se

2. Finnic-PIE Separation >9000 BC
12 m BC
8 m BC
3 m BC
9 m BC
5900
4400 BC Balt
Tocharians
Where they came from - the Urals
Finnic
PIE
Urals
Volga
Pontic
Steppe

3. PIE-Finnic
Urals
12000 BC
Aral
Sea
Turkics,
Altai
South Uzbekistan to Urals
West Siberian Lake
Finnic-Turkic Split

4. How they got back to Asia
Domesticated Horses 4400 BC

5. The
Silk Road
What they did
in Asia
Horse Breeding
Trading
Sanskrit
Slavic dialect
Hindu Vedas
Buddhism
Kushan Empire
Chess
How they
returned
to Europe

6. How Aryans went East
They were Hunters
Free Nomads & “Noble men”

7. Agriculture from Assyria & Anatolia
land controls, foreign ownership,
...taxes, fealty, hierarchies >7000
BC
Byzantine Farmers

8. Black Sea Flood 5600 BC (Noah)
Coast Line
5400 BC
5600 BC

9. Dnieper
Horses
Agri
4400 BC 7000
Constantinople
Rome ......
Ukraine 4400 BC
‘Dnieper Divide’
Agri west Aryans, Horses east
South Urals
Sintashta
3400 BC

10. Balts-Indo Iranians
Invented Chariot
2200 BC, S.Urals

11. noted In the Vedas
Achaim, Aryan Urheimat
nr. Chilabensk

12. Eurasian Steppe 5300 Km
Hungary to Mongolia

13. Aryan Trek East
1500
Gansu
3400 Sintashta
PII
4400 BC
1750
Khyber Pass
Persia
1800

14. Aryans Enter India: 1750 BC

15. Tocharians
in Xinjiang
Western
China
Cherchen
Man
1900 BC

16. Tocharian woman 1900 BC China

17. The Beauty of Loulan

18. Swastika 1900 BC China

19. Tocharian Traders 700 AD

20. Afghan Sheepherder Gulnara Karimova
Helmand Province (Aria) Uzbekistan
Today

21. Tocharian Culture in Asia
• Horse Breeding & Trading 1500 BC
• Sanskrit & Slavic Dialect 1500 BC
• Hindu Vedas, Upanishads 1400-800
• Buddhism (Sakya Culture) 500 BC
• Silk Road- Kushan Trading >200 BC
• Buddhism to China <100 AD
• Chess 500 AD
• Tocharian extinct 832 AD

22. Daina Poems
Barons
35,800 verses
feasts & events
of the mythical,
astronomical &
agricultural year

23. The Daina & The Veda
dainà folk-songs, highest expressions
of the native heart and mind.
religious sentiments, philosophy
• Balts & PII >> Daina to India & Persia
Daina became Sanskrit Vedic dhēnā
and the Avestan daēnā in Iran
• the Indo-European root
• “dhi, dhy-ei, dhei,” means
“to think, or to ponder over

24. Buddha: Sakya Prince 500 BC

25. Immanuel Kant
Nativist
Philosopher
Konigsberg
Wisdom is in the
Structure
of the Mind
(contra empiricists)

26. Spread of PIE Languages 67-3800 BC
Germanic
Italic
Celtic
3800
Greek
5300
Baltic Tocharian
5900
Tocharian
Baltic
Hittite
6700
1000 BC
2500 BC
6700 BC
Balt 5900 BC
Finnic was Parent of all PIE Languages
Slavic 500 AD

27. Language Evolution :
* Finno-Ugric is a “Stem” > Nostratic Language
* 5900 BC Baltic-Tocharian decended from Finnic
* 1500 BC Baltic spoken from west Asia to Poland
*1500 BC Slavic dialect separated from Baltic (Ural)
* 500 AD Slavic became a separate Language
* 1200 AD Slavic Fractionated, Russian emerged
* 1200 AD Baltic Fractionated, Latgalian, Lithuan,

28. Confucius
China has
Zhì
Wisdom
from the
mind,
the soul

29. Acupuncture
China has
Zhī
Knowledge
sensory
experience
Zinatne?

30. The
Silk
Road
How they
Returned
to Europe
Balts, Goths, Scyths, Saxons, Alans

31. Saka-Scyth
Culture
Sarmatians
in Crimea
3rd c. BC
Amazon Women
Scythian Men

32. Yuezhi Trading Cities of the
Ancient Tarim Basin, Xinjiang
Taklaman Desert
Kucha/
Kuchi
Kurçi
Toch. B
Kashgar
/Kashi
Khotan/
Yutian
Turfan/ārśi,
Gaochang
Tocharian A
r mchiȔ ȕ
Kroran
Yanqi, Agni
Note: Kurçi–Yuezhi (Goth-Kurzeme) Link

33. Yuezhi (Gu-ti) Exodus from China
Foundations of
Kushan (Kurçi)
Trading Empire

34. Slavs
500 AD
Goths
Kursi
400 BC Balts 1500
Saca ... Saxons Scyths BC
Scyths .. ... 400 AD 200 BC
Amazons
800 BC
Migrations North
Balts, Scyths, Saxons, Goths, Kursi
Yuezhi Guti
Kursi

35. Slavics 500 AD
..400 Goths Scyths 200 BC
.... Saxons
...... Rome Mongols
1200 Silk Road ... Western Civilisation
Yuezhi 176 BC Baghdad Kushans
Sakya
550 BC
Caspian Cleavage

36. Baltic Culture
Fractionates 1200 AD