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 ...
Tag: migration
Regarding the past or present movement of peoples from one area to another.
See also: Out of Africa, Out of Taiwan
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 ...
Ph.D scholarship in geochronological studies on faunal evolution and hominin dispersal in South and Southeast Asia during the Late Quaternary
From the Quaternary Dating Laboratory, Roskilde University, Denmark. The deadine is in two weeks! Applications are invited for the above ...
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 ...
Tracing the development of agriculture across Southeast Asia
When it comes to tracing the movements and migrations of prehistoric communities across Southeast Asia, the Bellwood model stands out ...
Live from ‘Sharing Our Archaeological Heritage’
I'm writing from Johor Bahru, Malaysia, where sessions at the international archaeology seminar organised by the Association of Malaysian Archaeolgists ...
In Search of the World's Most Ancient Mariners
Michael Balter reviews the latest scientific opinions about the nature of early human seafaring, covering when the earliest boats were ...
Southeast Asia, c. 100,000 B.P.
Monash University unveils an interactive map called Sahul Time, named after the ancient landmass of Australia and Papua New Guinea, ...
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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