Austronesian Migration
Austronesian Migration Theory propounds on the expansion of a group of people called the Austronesians from Asia into the Pacific by means of Taiwan 6,000 years ago. It was a theory proposed by Peter Bellwood a professor of Archeology. The theory largely explains the similarities in culture, language and physical attributes in different countries in the most Asian countries.
The Austronesian migrations began from the Chinese mainland, reaching Taiwan first in 3500 BC then the Philippines by 3000 BC. They reached Sumatra and Java by 2000 BC, Northern New Guinea by 1600 BC, Samoa by 1200 BC, Hawaii, Easter Island, and Madagascar by 500 AD, etc.
PHYSICAL TYPES:
Many scholars claim Austronesians are admixtures of Austroloids (a group which includes Veddoids, Australians, Negritos and Papuans) and Mongoloids. It is said that the Austroloiddescended from Ngandong man of Java, 9about 150,000 years ago who originated from the older Pithecanthropes of Java.
The common features of an Austronesian type were: short face (one of the shortest of any group), high skull, mild epicanthic fold ("almond-shaped eyes"), mild alveolar prognathism (full lower lip with jaw projecting past plane of nose), shovel-shaped incissors and Mesorrhine (medium broad nose on average).
Traces of the Austronesians in Culture
The common heritage that we share with the Austronesians are visible in the occurrence of specific cultural characteristics such as tattooing, use of outriggers on canoes, features of ethnographic and prehistoric art styles, and social characteristics such as concern with birth order of siblings and a reverence for ancestral kin group founders.
Peter Bellwood and Eusebio Dizon's work proposed that the Bataan sequence was divided into three provisional chronological phases. The first phase was called the Sunget Phase, which was tentatively dated to between 3500 and 2700 BP.
The following Naidi Phase (tentatively dated 2500 to 1500/1000 BP) contained assemblages from many sites on
The Austronesian migrations began from the Chinese mainland, reaching Taiwan first in 3500 BC then the Philippines by 3000 BC. They reached Sumatra and Java by 2000 BC, Northern New Guinea by 1600 BC, Samoa by 1200 BC, Hawaii, Easter Island, and Madagascar by 500 AD, etc.
PHYSICAL TYPES:
Many scholars claim Austronesians are admixtures of Austroloids (a group which includes Veddoids, Australians, Negritos and Papuans) and Mongoloids. It is said that the Austroloiddescended from Ngandong man of Java, 9about 150,000 years ago who originated from the older Pithecanthropes of Java.
The common features of an Austronesian type were: short face (one of the shortest of any group), high skull, mild epicanthic fold ("almond-shaped eyes"), mild alveolar prognathism (full lower lip with jaw projecting past plane of nose), shovel-shaped incissors and Mesorrhine (medium broad nose on average).
Traces of the Austronesians in Culture
The common heritage that we share with the Austronesians are visible in the occurrence of specific cultural characteristics such as tattooing, use of outriggers on canoes, features of ethnographic and prehistoric art styles, and social characteristics such as concern with birth order of siblings and a reverence for ancestral kin group founders.
Peter Bellwood and Eusebio Dizon's work proposed that the Bataan sequence was divided into three provisional chronological phases. The first phase was called the Sunget Phase, which was tentatively dated to between 3500 and 2700 BP.
The following Naidi Phase (tentatively dated 2500 to 1500/1000 BP) contained assemblages from many sites on