# Recommend historical fiction on prehistoric steppe people

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I was reading an article about the steppe mummies and was trying to find some historical fiction about those people. Something like a cross between The Mummies of Urumchi and Clan of the Cave Bear. Can anyone recommend one?

Here’s the article.

> **[Western China’s mysterious mummies were local descendants of ice age ancestors](https://www.science.org/content/article/western-china-s-mysterious-mummies-were-local-descendants-ice-age-ancestors)**
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> Find suggests Tarim Basin mummies were not strangers from a strange land