Victoria Chen receives funding from the Royal Society Te Apārangi for a three-year project on Austronesian origin and expansion. Te Herenga Waka — Victoria University of Wellington provides funding as ...
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Indigenous people of Taiwan

Long before modern Taiwan, its first inhabitants were Austronesian peoples whose culture and seafaring skills spread across the Pacific and Indian Oceans. This video explores the origins of Taiwan’s ...
Chinese archaeologists uncovered a 7,300-year-old civilisation on Pingtan island, off the coast of Fujian province in southeastern China, that indicates the island could have been an originating ...
Complex genetic data now confirms that mitochondrial DNA found in Pacific islanders was present in Island Southeast Asia at a much earlier period. The languages known as Austronesian are spoken by ...
The east coast county of Taitung is home to beautiful mountains, valleys and beaches and it's also the place to experience different cultures. Taitung County has become a center of archaeology and ...
With its wealth of artifacts shining a light on the long history of the Austronesian language family, the new Keqiutou Site Museum in Pingtan, East China's Fujian Province has garnered widespread ...
Isidore Dyen, an emeritus professor of linguistics at Yale who is known for his seminal work on Austronesian languages and Proto-Austronesian (the ancestral language of languages from Indonesia to ...
“Mana” is a staple of modern game design, the go-to resource wielded by millions of magi and warlocks and wardens and paladins. Whenever spells and incantations of immeasurable power are hurled at ...
Robert Blust, David F. Aberle, N. J. Allen, R. H. Barnes, Ann Chowning, Otto Chr. Dahl, Jacques Faublée, James J. Fox, George W. Grace, Toichi Mabuchi, Kenneth ...