Tarim Basin

Tarim Basin ialah cekungan endoreik besar di Barat Laut China yang merangkumi kawasan seluas . Terletak di kawasan Xinjiang China, kadang kala secara metonimi disebut sebagai separuh wilayah selatan, atau Nanjiang (, ). Di utaranya kawasan ini bersempadan dengan Pegunungan Tian Shan dan bahagian selatannya bersempadan dengan Pergunungan Kunlun di pinggir Dataran tinggi Qinghai-Tibet. Gurun Taklamakan mendominasi sebahagian besar cekungan ini. Nama Uyghur bersejarah untuk Tarim Basin ini ialah Altishahr (六域), yang bermaksud "enam bandar" dalam bahasa Uyghur.

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Rujukan 

 Baumer, Christoph. 2000. Southern Silk Road: In the Footsteps of Sir Aurel Stein and Sven Hedin. White Orchid Books. Bangkok.
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 Hill, John E. (2009) Through the Jade Gate to Rome: A Study of the Silk Routes during the Later Han Dynasty, 1st to 2nd Centuries CE. BookSurge, Charleston, South Carolina. ISBN 978-1-4392-2134-1.
 Mallory, J.P. and Mair, Victor H. 2000. The Tarim Mummies: Ancient China and the Mystery of the Earliest Peoples from the West. Thames & Hudson. London. ISBN 0-500-05101-1
 Stein, Aurel M. 1907. Ancient Khotan: Detailed report of archaeological explorations in Chinese Turkestan, 2 vols. Clarendon Press. Oxford. 
 Stein, Aurel M. 1921. Serindia: Detailed report of explorations in Central Asia and westernmost China, 5 vols. London & Oxford. Clarendon Press. Reprint: Delhi. Motilal Banarsidass. 1980. 
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Pautan luar 

 Rencana yang dapat diunduh: "Bukti bahawa populasi campuran Barat-Timur tinggal di Cekungan Tarim sedini awal Zaman Gangsa" Li et al. BMC Biology 2010, 8:15. 
 Silk Road Seattle - University of Washington (Tapak web Silk Road Seattle berisi banyak sumber daya yang berguna termasuk sejumlah teks lengkap karya-karya sejarah)
 The International Dunhuang Project
 Along the ancient silk routes: Central Asian art from the West Berlin State Museums, katalog pameran dari The Metropolitan Muzium of Art (tersedia dalam format PDF), yang mengandung jirim dari Cekungan Tarim
Geografi China
Rencana yang mengandungi teks bahasa Cina