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Austronesian

Migrations

1. Originate 2. First 3. Austronesian Migration

from a people to Theory propounds on the

prehistoric invent expansion of a group of people

seaborne maritime called the Austronesians from

migration from sailing Asia into the Pacific by means of

Taiwan around technology Taiwan 6,000 years ago. (Peter

3,000 to 1,500 which enabled Bellwood)
their rapid
BCE dispersal to the

(Austronesian islands of the

expansion) Indo-Pacific