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The most notable are the Austroasiatic -speaking peoples in western Island Southeast Asia (peninsular Malaysia, Sumatra, Borneo, and Java); [95] the Bantu peoples in Madagascar [52] and the Comoros; as well as Japanese, [96][97][98] Persian, Indian, Arab, and Han Chinese traders and migrants in more recent centuries.
Summary of ancient migratory movements in Oceania. Oceania is a geographical region with disputed borders, but generally encompassing Australia, New Guinea, Melanesia, Micronesia and Polynesia. [Note 1] The prehistoric peopling of Oceania took place through two major expansion movements. The first occurred between 50 and 70,000 years ago, and ...
Verenigde Oostindische Compagnie (or VOC) was a major force behind the Golden Age of Dutch exploration (category; c. 1590s–1720s) and Netherlandish cartography (c. 1570s–1670s). In the 17th century, the VOC's navigators and explorers charted almost three-quarters of the Australian coastline, except the east coast.
t. e. The Indigenous peoples of Oceania are Aboriginal Australians, Papuans, and Austronesians (Melanesians, [note 1] Micronesians, and Polynesians). These indigenous peoples have a historical continuity with pre-colonial societies that developed on their territories. With the notable exceptions of Australia, New Zealand, Hawaii, New Caledonia ...
Modern theories of the peopling of the Philippines islands are interpreted against the wider backdrop of the migrations of the Austronesian peoples. They comprise two major schools of thought, the "Out of Sundaland" models and the "Out of Taiwan" model. Of the two, however, the most widely accepted hypothesis is the Out-of-Taiwan model, which ...
Sagart (2004) proposes that the numerals of the Formosan languages reflect a nested series of innovations, from languages in the northwest (near the putative landfall of the Austronesian migration from the mainland), which share only the numerals 1–4 with proto-Malayo-Polynesian, counter-clockwise to the eastern languages (purple on map ...
Models of migration to the Philippines; Neolithic Revolution; Oceania; Oceanian art; Outrigger boat; Pacific Ocean; Paddy field; Polynesia; Polynesians; Pre-modern human migration; Prehistory of Taiwan; Prehistory of the Philippines; Proa; Sea; Sino-Austronesian languages; Tagalog people; Taiwanese indigenous peoples; Thor Heyerdahl; Timeline ...
Early human migrations. Putative migration waves out of Africa and back migrations into the continent, as well as the locations of major ancient human remains and archeological sites (López et al., 2015). Early human migrations are the earliest migrations and expansions of archaic and modern humans across continents.