The Austronesian Expansion, Part 1
Tides of History
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The History of the Philippines - A Brief History
At least 20 distinct terms can be reconstructed on the most conservative possible linguistic grounds, with dozens more for its descendant branches. Pottery offers the e easiest to follow indications of the initial journey. The earliest pottery found in the batan islands between the philippines and tian, dated to around 22 hundred b c is identical to what was being made in southern tijuan at the same time. Chemical analysis of the red slipped pottery from the cagayan valley show that it's makers were getting their clay from a variety of sources around the area.
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