Archaeology and the Austronesian expansion: where are we now?

2011/05/01 by Matthew Spriggs · 14 citations
Social Sciences · Earth and Planetary Sciences · Health Professions · #Pacific and Southeast Asian Studies #Archaeology and ancient environmental studies #Indigenous Studies and Ecology

paper · doi:10.1017/s0003598x00067910

Abstract

For many years the author has been tracking the spread of the Neolithic of Island Southeast Asia (ISEA) and its extension eastwards into the western Pacific, as a proxy for dating the spread of the Austronesian (AN) languages across that same vast area. Here he recalls the evidence, updates the hypothesis and poses some new questions.

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