Where the hot and sweltering tropical valleys and bleached coastlines of Papua New Guinea and the Bismarck Archipelago meet, archaeologists and geneticists have excavated, and resurrected, ancient hum ...

Austronesian languages are spread across half the globe, from Easter Island to Madagascar. Evidence from linguistics and archaeology indicates that the ‘Austronesian expansion,’ which began ...

The latest salvo in the debate over the “Out of Taiwan” hypothesis came last month from a mainland academic who said the origins of the Austronesian peoples were in the mainland’s southeast ...

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 ...

The study of Indigenous languages spoken in maritime South-East Asia today has shed new light on the beginnings of the Austronesian expansion. This was the last major migration of people spreading ...

Kings and Generals animated historical documentary series on the Ancient Civilizations continues with an episode on Austronesian origins of the Indigenous people of Taiwan, as we talk about their ...

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 ...

THE roughly 180 languages spoken in the Philippines belong to the Austronesian family of languages. This large family of languages is spoken in Southeast Asia, Taiwan and the Pacific, as well as in ...