Lapita Voyage aims to trace route of Polynesians through the pacific
An ambitious experiment to trace the migration route of the Polynesians as they colonised the pacific is underway! A team ...
Tag: Austronesian (peoples)
Referring to Austronesian-speaking people groups who live across Island Southeast Asia, Taiwan, Oceania and Madagascar.
Southeast Asia's Common Roots
Southeast Asia is the crossroads to a number of human migrations, the largest of which must have been the Austronesian ...
Migration in Southeast Asia: It's the other way around!
New genetic-level studies on Southeast Asian populations throw up new ideas about how humans migrated and populated this region - ...
The Chinese origin of Pacific Islanders
Archaeologist Jiao Tianlong is exploring the origins of the Austronesian people, who spread their language and technology from Southeast China ...
Palau skeletons and Homo floresiensis on National Public Radio
The National Public Radio's Science Friday programme has a 12-minute interview with Lee Berger, the principal investigator of the Palau ...
Negritos or Malays: Who are the original inhabitants of the Philippines?
An opinion piece by Vincent Cabreza summarising a paper presented by Lawence Reid from the University of Hawaii about the ...
Pacific Islanders’ Ancestry Emerges in Genetic Study
New light is shed of how the pacific islands were populated in a study published in the journal of the ...
Free Ebooks from the ANU E Press
The ANU E Press, the digital imprint of the Australian National University is offering a range of scholarly texts from ...
A short history of Indonesia
Perhaps the Brunei Times is running a series about writing the short histories of different countries in Southeast Asia. Today, ...
Chickens prove Polynesians crossed Pacific
Why did the Chicken cross the pacific? Because the Polynesians brought them there, it seems. A 600-year-old chicken bone from ...
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