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  2. Australo-Melanesian - Wikipedia

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    Australo-Melanesians (also known as Australasians or the Australomelanesoid, Australoid or Australioid race) is an outdated historical grouping of various people indigenous to Melanesia and Australia. Controversially, some groups found in parts of Southeast Asia and South Asia were also sometimes included.

  3. Melanesians - Wikipedia

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    The origin of Melanesians is generally associated with the first settlement of Australasia by a lineage dubbed 'Australasians' or 'Australo-Papuans' during the Initial Upper Paleolithic, which is "ascribed to a population movement with uniform genetic features and material culture" (Ancient East Eurasians), and sharing deep ancestry with modern East Asian peoples and other Asia-Pacific groups.

  4. Austronesian peoples - Wikipedia

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    The Australo-Melanesian populations of Southeast Asia and Melanesia (whom Blumenbach initially classified as a "subrace" of the "Malay" race) were also now being treated as a separate "Ethiopian" race by authors like Georges Cuvier, Conrad Malte-Brun (who first coined the term "Oceania" as Océanique), Julien-Joseph Virey, and René Lesson. [59 ...

  5. Two layer hypothesis - Wikipedia

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    Teuku argued these characteristics correspond to the Australo-Melanesian population proposed by Koenigswald that predated the East Asian immigrants of the Neolithic; also suggesting the initial inhabitants were likely forced south of Southeast Asia's mainland by the second wave of migrants, due to resource competition or conflict.

  6. Melanesia - Wikipedia

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    He reasoned that the islands of New Guinea should not be included because only some of its people were Melanesians. Also, like Bory de Saint-Vincent, he excluded Australia from Melanesia. [7]: 528 It was in these works that Codrington introduced the Melanesian cultural concept of mana to the West. [8] A pan flute from Solomon Islands, 19th century

  7. History of Laos - Wikipedia

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    The earliest inhabitants of Laos—Australo-Melanesians [citation needed], were followed by members of the Austro-Asiatic language family. These earliest societies contributed to the ancestral gene pool of the upland Lao ethnicities known collectively as " Lao Theung ," with the largest ethnic groups being the Khamu of northern Laos, and the ...

  8. Oceanian art - Wikipedia

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    The first, an Australo-Melanesian people and the ancestors of modern-day Melanesians and Australian Aboriginals, came to New Guinea and Australia about 40,000 to 60,000 years ago. The Melanesians expanded as far as the northern Solomon Islands by 38,000 BC.

  9. Australasia - Wikipedia

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    Australia's concept of Australasia, which includes Australia, New Zealand and, in this case, Melanesia Australasia is a subregion of Oceania, comprising Australia, New Zealand (overlapping with Polynesia), and sometimes including New Guinea and surrounding islands (overlapping with Melanesia).