Newest Study Questioning/Debunking(?) the Out of Taiwan hypothesis, Ancient Voyaging and Polynesian Origins |
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Newest Study Questioning/Debunking(?) the Out of Taiwan hypothesis, Ancient Voyaging and Polynesian Origins |
Mar 2 2011, 08:47 AM
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Before anything else, pls be referred to the old thread for more interesting points and links... http://www.asiafinest.com/forum/index.php?showtopic=223334
http://www.cell.com/AJHG/fulltext/S0002-92...rge_figure=true ---------------------- The original paper: http://download.cell.com/AJHG/pdf/PIIS0002929711000103.pdf Ancient Voyaging and Polynesian Origins Pedro Soares1, 2, Teresa Rito1, 3, 4, Jean Trejaut5, Maru Mormina1, 6, Catherine Hill1, Emma Tinkler-Hundal1, Michelle Braid1, Douglas J. Clarke3, Jun-Hun Loo5, Noel Thomson7, Tim Denham8, Mark Donohue9, Vincent Macaulay7, Marie Lin5, 10, Stephen Oppenheimer11 and Martin B. Richards1, In this paper, ISEA: includes Philippines, Indonesia, and Malaysian Borneo. Taiwan-excluded Near Oceania (the western Pacific): includes New Guinea, the Bismarck Archipelago, Bougainville, and the Solomon Islands; and Remote Oceania includes Island Melanesia southeast of the Solomons (including Vanuatu and Fiji), Polynesia, and Micronesia --------------------------------- Some highlights: Haplogroup B4a1a, although almost exclusively associated with speakers of Austronesian languages, cannot have dispersed from Taiwan into ISEA and the Pacific 3–4 ka. The 95% confidence limits on the ages of B4a1a1 and B4a1a1a from complete mtDNAs explicitly reject this explanation for their distribution (Table 1). Because B4a1a, along with some haplogroup Q lineages—of likely New Guinean origin, which occur in Polynesia at a rate of <5%[10] and [12]—make up almost all of the mtDNAs found in Polynesia, these results exclude any significant direct Taiwanese contribution from 4 ka to the maternal ancestry of Polynesians. (We cannot entirely rule out an early Holocene dispersal from Taiwan >8 ka,23 but such a dispersal would not match the archaeologically dated “out of Taiwan” model.) In ruling out both a simple Taiwanese and a Wallacean origin, these results also contradict an influential “slow boat” model for Polynesian origins that suggests an ancestry in Taiwan at 4 ka for the maternal line of descent while positing a large Near Oceanic origin for the male side, based on Y chromosome evidence.[10], [47], [48] and [49] Our results suggest instead that the mtDNA subclade B4a1a and the major Pacific Y chromosome haplogroup C2 might be distributed in a rather similar way, with a proximally Near Oceanic, but ultimately Southeast Asian, ancestry. Several widely distributed paternal subclades may have a Taiwanese ancestry, but they only occur in Oceania at low frequencies.[49] and [50] Available autosomal microsatellite diversity, furthermore, suggests that Polynesian patterns show a partly East Asian and partly Near Oceanic ancestry at low resolution but are distinct from both at higher resolution.[51] and [52] This is also compatible with our model of a largely ancient Asian ancestry for Polynesian origins, with an early Holocene incubation period in ISEA and then in Near Oceania. The male and female lines of descent may therefore not have such radically contrasting histories as some have proposed.[10] and [53] The spread of B4a1a1a back through New Guinea into ISEA, which most likely took place 4–5 ka, suggests instead that models based on the idea of a “voyaging corridor,”[5] and [7] facilitating exchange between ISEA and Near Oceania, may provide a more plausible backdrop to the settlement of the Remote Pacific. The HVS-I database provides further indications of small-scale bidirectional movements across this region. E1b, in particular, might plausibly have been carried by small numbers of Austronesian-speaking voyagers who integrated with coastal-dwelling B4a1a1 groups in the Bismarcks (where it is present at 5%), perhaps stimulating the rise and spread of the Lapita culture and the dispersal of the Oceanic languages.38 Other lineages from Southeast Asia are also found at low frequencies in Near Oceania, and still others are candidates for dispersal from Taiwan into eastern Indonesia via the Philippines, but they did not reach Oceania.25 Some of these may have also been involved in the transmission of Austronesian culture and languages, although they evidently had no demic role in the founding of Polynesia. Thus, although our results rule out any substantial maternal ancestry in Taiwan for Polynesians, they do not preclude an Austronesian linguistic dispersal from Taiwan to Oceania 3–4 ka,54 mediated by social networks rather than directly by people of Taiwanese ancestry but perhaps involving small numbers of migrants at various times.9 The mtDNA patterns point to the possibility of a staged series of dispersals of small numbers of Austronesian speakers, each followed by a period of extensive acculturation and language shift.55 Overall, though, the mtDNA evidence highlights a deeper and more complex history of two-way maritime interaction between ISEA and Near Oceania than is evident from most previous accounts.54 Archaeological and linguistic evidence for maritime interaction between ISEA and Near Oceania during the early and mid-Holocene is strengthening, however,[9] and [56] and it has been suggested that contacts might have been facilitated by sea-level rises and improvements in conditions on the north coast of New Guinea.4 Early to mid-Holocene social networks between New Guinea and the Bismarck Archipelago are marked by the spread of stone mortars and pestles, obsidian, and stemmed obsidian tools from 8 ka57 until before or alongside the advent of Lapita pottery in the Bismarcks at 3.5 ka.6 The absence of early Lapita pottery on New Guinea suggests major disruptions to preexisting exchange networks within Near Oceania before or at 3.5 ka, with increasing social isolation of some areas and increasing interaction between others. There is also emerging evidence from both archaeology and archaeobotany for the spread of domesticates during the mid-Holocene, before the presumed advent of Austronesian dominance from 4 ka. Molecular analyses suggest that bananas,58 sago,59 greater yam,60 and sugarcane61 all underwent early domestication in the New Guinea region. These cultivars, and associated cultivation practices, diffused westward into ISEA, where the plants and linguistic terms for them were adopted by Proto-Malayo-Polynesian speakers upon their arrival 4 ka[9], [54] and [62]. The vegetative cultivation of these plants evidently occurred within ISEA before any Taiwanese influences became significant. This work suggests, therefore, a convergence of archaeological and genetic evidence, as well as concordance between different lines of genetic evidence. Our results imply an early to mid-Holocene Near Oceanic ancestry for the Polynesian peoples, likely fertilized by small numbers of socially dominant Austronesian-speaking voyagers from ISEA in the Lapita formative period, 3.5 ka. Our work can therefore also pave the way for new accounts of the spread of Austronesian languages. This post has been edited by trismegistos: Sep 24 2011, 08:27 AM |
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Mar 6 2011, 02:10 AM
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^^lol maybe only because china is a big country (today), well galileo was going against the church which was a sin. from what i heard chinaPRC doesn't want taiwan to be the austronesian homeland.. taiwanROC do & they want a unesco recognition of taiwan as the austronesian homeland.. probably both for political reasons i see your view... since theres only one migration into the region.. what you think made majority of filipinos/indonesians pop. quite different from negritos/papuans if they're the same people & have both lived in the same region/climate... as you know groups who never had migrations outside of the equatorial region in the their lineage, tend to retain many features similar/convergent those of sub-saharan africans like darker tones, more developed lip, larger eyes, non-straight/wavy hair etc.. ie: andamanese, australians, papuans.. Politics is likely a reason. I do have a theory as to why Taiwanese aborigines and the Yami are more genetically closer to one another than they are to the Filipinos, and its probably because of genetic drift. Austronesians from Insular Southeast Asia (ISEA) migrated from the Philippines to Taiwan, and simply got stuck there with little inflow and outflow over the centuries and milleniums. The isolation of Taiwan allows for genetic drift among the Taiwanese aborigines; they genetically drifted away from other Austronesians over time and evolved with respect to their specific environmental conditions, and in this case very isolated environmental conditions in Taiwan. The Austronesians in the Philippines are also evolving in response to their respective environmental conditions which is different from Taiwan. Hence how two historically and genetically related groups of people can over time genetically drift apart from one another. Trismegistos gives a good explanation below as to how we Austronesians began to look differently from the Negritos. Here's the thing though. There doesn't appear to be any transitional group(s) between Austronesians and Australoids (such as Negritos and Papuans) as far as I know. Austronesians are classified as Southern Mongoloids with very very little Australoid genes, but both groups have a common ancestor in Southeast Asia and thus form a genetic continuum. So where are the transitional groups if we truly did genetically bifurcate from the Australoids? Usually there would be a genetic gradient from Australoid to Austronesian with several transitional groups inbetween to show for, but apparently there are none. I'm thinking that the genetic gradient was somehow destroyed, and here's my explanation: First off, we should realize that there were Australoid groups throughout Asia. The Ainu of Japan are an Australoid group. Therefore, before any Mongoloids existed, Australoids likely were everywhere in Asia. But probably some Australoids (and more likely only one group of Australoid) evolve to become Proto-Mongoloids. Where this happened? I don't know. It could have happened in Southeast Asia or further north. We have to remember that terms like Southeast Asia or East Asia or Northeast Asia are artificial terms, and therefore it probably should not matter where Proto-Mongoloids developed. Moreover, the ice sheets were retreating from the last Ice Age, and Southeast Asia likely had a much cooler climate back then perhaps similar to that found in Northeast Asia today. So it is not impossible that one Australoid group began its evolutionary development into Proto-Mongoloids in Southeast Asia. These Proto-Mongoloids began to spread themselves throughout Asia and co-existed with other Australoid groups. One Proto-Mongoloid group made it to Siberia, and they would be the ancestors of todays Amerindians. Of the several Proto-Mongoloid groups, perhaps only one evolved to become a Mongoloid group, and this Mongoloid group began spreading itself across Asia and coexisting with other Proto-Mongoloids and Australoids at first. However, this Mongoloid was more culturally and technologically advanced, and even discovered agriculture allowing its populations to grow and spread, and thus outcompeting the Proto-Mongoloids and Australoids in territory and population growth. The Proto-Mongoloids and Australoids would become marginalized being forced into the hills and mountains, or being forced to migrate elsewhere such as eastern Southeast Asia, or the mountains or islets of Southeast Asia. The Proto-Mongoloids and Australoids never discovered agriculture and other scientific and technological advancements, so their populations were likely very small, and were militarily weak and susceptible to attacks from Mongoloids. Most of the Proto-Mongoloids and Australoids were likely then absorbed (interbred) by the Mongoloids or destroyed, and therefore the transitional groups (especially most nearest to the Mongoloids geographically and genetically) were wiped out leaving only those groups furthest away from the Mongoloids (and hence most nearest to Australoid) to exist in the peripheries and hills of Southeast Asia today. Southeast Asians today do seem to have more Australoid admixture compared to the Northern Chinese, but Southeast Asians are much much more closer to other Mongoloids than to Australoids. Mongoloids having far larger populations in comparison to the Proto-Mongoloids and Australoids, any interbreeding between these groups would have minimal effect on the genetic makeup of the Mongoloid populations. A similar thing likely happened with the formation of the Caucasoids from the Negroids with many of their transitional groups being wiped out. Clearer and more concise condensation of this maternal mitochondrial study.
My above explanation is from the Paternal Y Chromosomal POV, re: Paleolithic and Neolithic. And tried to connect it to this, which ended up confusing. Taiwan won't get sympathy from us, true Austronesians, if they keep on bullying... http://erleargonza.blogspot.com/2011/03/ta...ly-ph-over.html Sinocentrism-everything flows from China is one factor vis a vis OOT(Taiwan-centrism) as another factor? Well, it looks like it's complimentary not antagonistic in that chart/graph, that's why the migratory line's direction pointed to a very improbable and illogical (passing through the Genetic barrier-Himalayan mountain ranges) to China then to Taiwan southward to SEA. Neolithic Agriculture came from China and OOT(Taiwan Homeland hypothesis) is still very much accepted as the dogma and standard in our textbooks whether you're from China, Taiwan, or the Philippines or the rest of SEA and the world. Sundaland(MSEA+ISEA) as cradle of rice agriculture, need to be worked on more agressively by SEA researchers(paleontologist, archaeologist, archaeogeneticists and linguists). The reasons for having different phenotypes: Bifurcations(Genetic splitting) early on and Natural Selection or rather Selective Breeding(selective preference for relatively lighter skinned over dark-skinned beauties), Different environments and conditions, Clannishness or Caste-like societies enforced by archaic religion and politics forbidding Admixture or inter-ethnic marriages, Different lifestyles(sedentary agrarian sheltered lifestyle versus brutish hunter-gatherer lifestyle), different latitude(RP is same latitude as IndoChina), different altitudes(Ifugaos more fairer skinned than their closes relatives the Ilocanos/Pangasinenses), Ice Age condition at that time meant much cooler condition than it is now, The Dragon and Bird Clan Nusantao Marime Trading and Communication Network(cultural and genetic exchanges or transfers between relatively lighter skinned Austronesians/Proto-Austronesians/Austro-Dravidians/Sino-Austrics/DongYi(Yue/Yayoi) tribes from the north with Proto-Austronesians/Austronesians from ISEA/MSEA happened since time immemorial). Sheltered agrarian lifestyle compared to their brutish hunter-gatherer ancestors afforded away from the Sun most of the time creating a decresed melanin production(Folic acid-Vitamin D-Melanin connection) for many millenia breeded a brownish hue complexion. Our Southern mongoloid ancestors preferred marrying with their own kind rather than to those with Australoid appearance (Selective preference for a much fairer maiden than black beauty). While the Northern mongoloids(Sinodonts) came from the Southern Mongoloids(Sundadonts) who went northwards during the rising of sea levels. Later on reverse migrations, Northern Mongoloids going southwards(Nusantao Maritime Trading Communication Network) with the Southern Mongoloids preferring to intermarry with the fairer Northern mongoloids. The hunter gatherers like Australian aborigenes, the Andamese, and the Aeta negritoes have lived in relatively isolated conditions(including culturally) in their respective areas for millenia. It's almost like they haven't changed since time immemorial. If we ressurect our ancestor, the Callao man(~50kya) and put him side by side wth the negrito of today, we'll probably have difficulty in distinguishing one from the other. That's why the Southern Mongoloids once bifurcated early on from their Australoid ancestors coupled with those above factors prevented them from regressing back to the Australoid phenotype despite millenia of living in relatively the same region. Southern Mongoloids(Malayoids) having bifurcated early on from their Australoid ancestors practicing Agrarian lifestyle? The implication of this is huge. Agriculure started at Sundaland. This post has been edited by Prau123: Mar 6 2011, 03:01 AM |
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Mar 6 2011, 08:52 AM
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In addition, there were several catastrophic events almost biblical in proportion just like the Noah's flood and I mean the series of Floods that happened during the end of the last Ice Age which could account for Natural Selection, where those fit for survival and the means/technology had higher chances of survival. These and other several events could cause Population bottleneck, meaning only a few percentage of the population would be able to survive, as in the category of the Toba eruption, the effect of which could rival the meteor impact that could have ended the reign of the dinosaurs. So, these alltogether could have caused the extinction of several Australoid and Proto-Mongoloid lines. Or some lineages were not resistant to emerging illneses, such would cause Natural selection. Several Australoid, Proto-Mongoloid lnes simply died out and wiped out because they lack some resistance to certain diseases like what happened in the Americas, infectious diseases carried by the white men wiped out several Indian populations.
Those who were able to survive in the already mentioned series of floods were those with excellent maritime technologies like the Southern Mongoloids/Sino-Ausronesians or in the case of today's Highlander Australoids like papuans and negritos had ancestors with enough survival skills(e.g. rudimentary boat making skills) or who were adepts in reading and heeding the signs of the times and/or lucky enough to be on elevations out of reach by the great flood. Without needing a war between Australoids and Mongoloids with just having the burgeoning population sustained by agriculture on the latter side, the territorial space for hunters and gatherers became smaller and smaller. But archetypal, mystical, mythical records spoke of wars between Aryans and the Dravidians, Lemurians versus Atlanteans could be symbolical to the wars between the Darker skinned Australoid Dravidians versus the lighter skinned Mongoloids and protoCaucasoid Aryans. Prehistoric people were like the people in ancient histories which made war because of religion and politics. Sacred scriptures from Hinduism is replete with stories of wars made by men for the gods. I think the Hanunuo Mangyans and the Manobos are prime examples of Southern Mongoloids in appearance but significant Australoid in genetic constitution. 67 percent of Hanunuo for e.g. have the Australoid K* haplotype even higher percentages than many of the Negritoes.(Karafet study) Deluge or Deluvial myths in China, Vietnam and the rest of Southeast Asia... http://sambali.blogspot.com/2007/09/deluge...og-husband.html There are myths which spoke of the gods which brings rice agriculture after the flood... http://sambali.blogspot.com/2006/05/tala-glossary.html More deluvial myths... http://sambali.blogspot.com/2008/04/kurosh...vel-of-sea.html Hanunuo and Aetas as adepts in the balance of nature http://sambali.blogspot.com/2010_01_01_archive.html domestication... http://sambali.blogspot.com/2009/09/single...ted-dog-in.html http://sambali.blogspot.com/2005/04/news-p...heast-asia.html Tidal farming and culturing fish(bangus)... http://sambali.blogspot.com/2009/09/tidal-...ing-system.html http://sambali.blogspot.com/2008/12/pampan...rol-system.html single origin of agriculture... http://sambali.blogspot.com/2006/01/articl...-origin-of.html http://sambali.blogspot.com/2005/11/single...griculture.html Interesting to note that the houses of the early Chinese and Japanese are stylized Bahay Kubo in architectural design. East Indies or Greater India(South Asia + SEA) can be considered as the homeland of the majority of Eurasians(Caucasoids and Mongoloids). i.e if Out of India theory of the origin of the Caucasoids is proven true. But branchings and bifurcations of the archaic haplogroups: K, C and D seemed to be highest, more diverse in SEA. Perhaps, Sundaland can be considered as the homeland even by the Indo-Aryans(haplogroup R is a subset of K). Bagobo myth spoke of all humanity springing forth from the isles. The Ancients spoke of Elysean, Field of Reeds, Lost Paradise, Isles of the Blest, Chryse Chreosonese, Punt, which the Ancient Egyptians(haplotype K2/T) referred to their motherland, Dilmun, Hawaiki/Javaiki by the Polynesians, Ancestral land or Serendip, or Taprobane where the Hindus placed their Paradise or Yvymaraney of the Tupian Indians of Brazil, or the Aztlan or Aztatlan of the Aztecs of Mexico, or the Tollán of the Mayas of Yucatan, the submerged land from which these Indians were obliged to flee, when it sunk underseas, disappearing forever. Is it no other than Sundaland sunken with the Archipelagos as its remains? This post has been edited by trismegistos: Mar 6 2011, 10:53 AM |
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Mar 7 2011, 01:50 AM
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In addition, there were several catastrophic events almost biblical in proportion just like the Noah's flood and I mean the series of Floods that happened during the end of the last Ice Age which could account for Natural Selection, where those fit for survival and the means/technology had higher chances of survival. These and other several events could cause Population bottleneck, meaning only a few percentage of the population would be able to survive, as in the category of the Toba eruption, the effect of which could rival the meteor impact that could have ended the reign of the dinosaurs. So, these alltogether could have caused the extinction of several Australoid and Proto-Mongoloid lines. Or some lineages were not resistant to emerging illneses, such would cause Natural selection. Several Australoid, Proto-Mongoloid lnes simply died out and wiped out because they lack some resistance to certain diseases like what happened in the Americas, infectious diseases carried by the white men wiped out several Indian populations. Those who were able to survive in the already mentioned series of floods were those with excellent maritime technologies like the Southern Mongoloids/Sino-Ausronesians or in the case of today's Highlander Australoids like papuans and negritos had ancestors with enough survival skills(e.g. rudimentary boat making skills) or who were adepts in reading and heeding the signs of the times and/or lucky enough to be on elevations out of reach by the great flood. Without needing a war between Australoids and Mongoloids with just having the burgeoning population sustained by agriculture on the latter side, the territorial space for hunters and gatherers became smaller and smaller. But archetypal, mystical, mythical records spoke of wars between Aryans and the Dravidians, Lemurians versus Atlanteans could be symbolical to the wars between the Darker skinned Australoid Dravidians versus the lighter skinned Mongoloids and protoCaucasoid Aryans. Prehistoric people were like the people in ancient histories which made war because of religion and politics. Sacred scriptures from Hinduism is replete with stories of wars made by men for the gods. I think the Hanunuo Mangyans and the Manobos are prime examples of Southern Mongoloids in appearance but significant Australoid in genetic constitution. 67 percent of Hanunuo for e.g. have the Australoid K* haplotype even higher percentages than many of the Negritoes.(Karafet study) Deluge or Deluvial myths in China, Vietnam and the rest of Southeast Asia... http://sambali.blogspot.com/2007/09/deluge...og-husband.html There are myths which spoke of the gods which brings rice agriculture after the flood... http://sambali.blogspot.com/2006/05/tala-glossary.html More deluvial myths... http://sambali.blogspot.com/2008/04/kurosh...vel-of-sea.html Hanunuo and Aetas as adepts in the balance of nature http://sambali.blogspot.com/2010_01_01_archive.html domestication... http://sambali.blogspot.com/2009/09/single...ted-dog-in.html http://sambali.blogspot.com/2005/04/news-p...heast-asia.html Tidal farming and culturing fish(bangus)... http://sambali.blogspot.com/2009/09/tidal-...ing-system.html http://sambali.blogspot.com/2008/12/pampan...rol-system.html single origin of agriculture... http://sambali.blogspot.com/2006/01/articl...-origin-of.html http://sambali.blogspot.com/2005/11/single...griculture.html Interesting to note that the houses of the early Chinese and Japanese are stylized Bahay Kubo in architectural design. East Indies or Greater India(South Asia + SEA) can be considered as the homeland of the majority of Eurasians(Caucasoids and Mongoloids). i.e if Out of India theory of the origin of the Caucasoids is proven true. But branchings and bifurcations of the archaic haplogroups: K, C and D seemed to be highest, more diverse in SEA. Perhaps, Sundaland can be considered as the homeland even by the Indo-Aryans(haplogroup R is a subset of K). Bagobo myth spoke of all humanity springing forth from the isles. The Ancients spoke of Elysean, Field of Reeds, Lost Paradise, Isles of the Blest, Chryse Chreosonese, Punt, which the Ancient Egyptians(haplotype K2/T) referred to their motherland, Dilmun, Hawaiki/Javaiki by the Polynesians, Ancestral land or Serendip, or Taprobane where the Hindus placed their Paradise or Yvymaraney of the Tupian Indians of Brazil, or the Aztlan or Aztatlan of the Aztecs of Mexico, or the Tollán of the Mayas of Yucatan, the submerged land from which these Indians were obliged to flee, when it sunk underseas, disappearing forever. Is it no other than Sundaland sunken with the Archipelagos as its remains? I got through the first four articles, and that fourth one was quite long, but very interesting. Seems like flood stories are found throughout the world even in the Philippines. There was also great respect for balance in nature among many of our ancestors and respect for life since our ancestors are likely reincarnated into animals such as the crocodile. It's interesting how some of the indigenous tribes believed that different parts of the body represent different past generations. It's also interesting that some tribes base their family identity by 5 generations. I think that's typical Filipino culture to view oneself as part of a family lineage that stems back a certain amount of generations. I didn't realize that the Hanunuo Mangyans and the Manobos could be considered transitional groups. I guess with ISEA's several different islands and different terrains, some of the transitional groups have survived after all. As you said, bottle necks such as the one caused by the Tabo eruption, epic floods, and diseases likely diminished many of the transitional groups. I guess I should clarify that Austronesians and some of our Australoid kin expanded their populations and territory via maritime colonization especially the coast lines, and not agriculture as is often the case with several of the other civilizations of the world that are often found in large continents. It was our boat building capabilities such as the outrigger canoe, navigation, our penchant to colonize only the coastlines, and our ability to obtain much of our nutrition from the sea such as fish, shrimp, crabs, seaweed, and our ability to make use of natural resources with some level of tropical agriculture such as yam, breadfruit, taro, ube, sago, bananas, coconuts, and the variety of tropical fruits enabled our ancestors to thrive in insular Southeast Asia, and it was this mechanism for Austronesian expansion and growth, and not the one I previously posted regarding agriculture as a basis for Mongoloid expansion. Rice may have helped us, but it came later, although I am one to believe that rice could very well have been domesticated and cultivated in Southeast Asia first. Austronesians are also family oriented people allowing us to create societies on land or over the sea such as the Bajaus. These societies are not necessarily adherent to a large kingdom or empire, although this did occur in many places where a kingdom or empire had influence especially in the past 2,000 years, but even then many of our kingdoms and empires acted more like confederations rather than a highly centralized organization. Our political culture was highly decentralized in management which allowed our ancestors the flexibility to colonize different islands. As a result we would create a world wide web of trade that expanded from Africa to Austronesia to the Pacific Islands, and possibly even the Americas. This post has been edited by Prau123: Mar 7 2011, 01:56 AM |
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trismegistos Newest Study Questioning/Debunking(?) the Out of Taiwan hypothesis Mar 2 2011, 08:47 AM
filipinoy ^true agriculture already developed independently ... Mar 2 2011, 09:17 AM
trismegistos QUOTE (filipinoy @ Mar 2 2011, 09:17 AM) ... Mar 2 2011, 08:06 PM
filipinoy QUOTE (trismegistos @ Mar 2 2011, 06:06 P... Mar 4 2011, 10:26 AM
trismegistos QUOTE (filipinoy @ Mar 4 2011, 10:26 AM) ... Mar 4 2011, 05:19 PM
Prau123 QUOTE (trismegistos @ Mar 4 2011, 06:19 P... Mar 5 2011, 04:44 AM
trismegistos QUOTE (Prau123 @ Mar 5 2011, 04:44 AM) Ba... Mar 5 2011, 06:45 PM
filipinoy ^^lol maybe only because china is a big country (t... Mar 5 2011, 07:46 AM
austronesian0sailor I see what you're trying say with all these th... Mar 7 2011, 12:41 PM
apac45 dude, dude, dude. lot of central, east and weste... Mar 10 2011, 05:51 PM
martin_nuke QUOTE (apac45 @ Mar 10 2011, 06:51 PM) du... Mar 10 2011, 09:55 PM
austronesian0sailor QUOTE (apac45 @ Mar 10 2011, 05:51 PM) du... Mar 11 2011, 01:40 AM
Prau123 QUOTE (austronesian0sailor @ Mar 11 2011, 01... Mar 16 2011, 11:30 PM
filipinoy QUOTE (Prau123 @ Mar 6 2011, 12:10 AM) Mo... Mar 16 2011, 02:46 PM
martin_nuke QUOTE (filipinoy @ Mar 16 2011, 02:46 PM)... Mar 16 2011, 05:21 PM
filipinoy ^just the last ice age saudi arabia was cooler ... Mar 16 2011, 08:02 PM
apac45 Animals adapted for cold weather all have heavy fu... Mar 16 2011, 11:05 PM
filipinoy ^berbers are considered mostly caucasoid? same ori... Mar 17 2011, 02:15 AM
Prau123 QUOTE (filipinoy @ Mar 17 2011, 02:15 AM)... Mar 18 2011, 02:19 AM
apac45 Fat is also insulation, but we see that really fat... Mar 16 2011, 11:09 PM
apac45 Hair does not freeze skin freezes. In fact, hai... Mar 19 2011, 10:40 AM
filipinoy QUOTE (apac45 @ Mar 19 2011, 08:40 AM) Ha... Mar 19 2011, 11:47 AM
apac45 maybe you guys can go to alaska and tell everyone ... Mar 19 2011, 10:51 AM
Prau123 I may have been too quick to jump to the conclusio... Mar 21 2011, 09:33 PM
trismegistos The mystery on how Southern Mongoloids evolved fro... Mar 23 2011, 01:58 AM
apac45 thankss for showing a reasonable mind prau123. es... Mar 23 2011, 11:04 AM
filipinoy ^if your diet is already full of vitamin D... your... Mar 23 2011, 01:16 PM
maharlikangpilipino I don't know if this is of any help to your di... May 4 2011, 06:55 PM
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