Editing Wusun (section)

==Physical appearance==
[[File:Imperial Encyclopaedia - Borders - pic038 - 烏孫國.svg|thumb|A Chinese depiction of the Wusun, from ''[[Gujin Tushu Jicheng]]'', 18th century.]]
The ''Book of Han'' and ''Shiji'' do not make any special note of the physical appearance of the Wusun. The first description of the Wusun's physical appearance is found in a [[Western Han dynasty]] book of [[divination]], the ''[[Jiaoshi Yilin]]'', which describes the women of the Wusun as "with deep eyesockets, dark, ugly: their preferences are different, past their prime [still] without spouse."<ref>[http://ctext.org/dictionary.pl?if=en&id=86673 《焦氏易林 – Jiaoshi Yilin》] '''Original text''':烏孫氏女，深目黑醜；嗜欲不同，過時無偶。</ref><ref name=Wang>{{cite book |author1=Wang Mingzhe |author2=Wang Binghua |year=1983 |title=Research on Wusun (乌孙研究)|place= Ürümqi |publisher= Xinjiang People's Press |page=43}}</ref> A later 7th&nbsp;century commentary to the ''Book of Han'' by [[Yan Shigu]]<ref name="Maenchen-Helfen">{{harvnb|Maenchen-Helfen|1973|pp=369–375}}</ref> says:

{{Blockquote|Among the barbarians (戎; [[Xirong|Róng]]) in the Western Regions, the look of the Wusun is the most unusual. The present barbarians (胡人; ''[[Hu (people)|húrén]]'') who have green eyes and red hair, and look like macaque monkeys, are the offspring of this people.<ref name="Maenchen-Helfen"/><ref name="yanshigu">''[[Book of Han]]'', [http://www.guoxue123.com/shibu/0101/01hsyz/111.htm with commentary by Yan Shigu] '''Original text''':　烏孫於西域諸戎其形最異。今之胡人青眼、赤須，狀類彌猴者，本其種也。</ref><ref name="So134">{{harvnb|So|2009|p=134}}</ref>}}

Initially, when only a few number of skulls from Wusun territory were known, the Wusun were recognized as a [[Caucasian race|Caucasoid]] people with slight [[Mongoloid race|Mongoloid]] admixture.<ref name="Maenchen-Helfen"/> Later, in a more thorough study by [[Soviet Union|Soviet]] archaeologists of eighty-seven skulls of [[Jetisu|Zhetysu]], the six skulls of the Wusun period were determined to be purely Caucasoid or close to it.<ref name="Maenchen-Helfen"/><ref name="MalloryMair93">{{harvnb|Mallory|Mair|2000|pp=93–94}}</ref>