The Austronesian Expansion, Part 1
Tides of History
The New Age of Movement, Migration and Colonization
Genetic evidence suggests that the islands of maritime southeast asia were in at least sporadic contact with the mainland. People traded obsidian among the islands of the bismark archipelago, and commonalities in stone tools between those islands and new ginny tell us that people, technology and ideas circulated. The particular method of food production that emerged in new guiney focused on plants like taro bananas and sugar cane seems to have made its way west into the islands of alasia and south asia about ten thousand years ago onward. Astranesian languages are spoken everywhere, from madagascar to hawaii. Yet this great journey to global prominence had humble beginnings. Beginnings we can
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