In the 17th and 18th centuries, navigators exploring the Pacific and Indian oceans discovered that the languages spoken on many islands, spanning from Madagascar in the west to Polynesia in the east, ...

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, Vol. 112, No. 44 (November 3, 2015), pp. 13537-13542 (6 pages) The peopling of Remote Oceanic islands by Austronesian ...

Pigs across the Pacific can trace their ancestry to Southeast Asian domestic pigs that accompanied early Austronesian-speaking groups as they island-hopped across the region, according to a new ...

More than 4,000 years ago, a proto-globalization process started in the Indian Ocean, one of the outcomes being a great human migration of African and Asian peoples spreading across the Indian Ocean ...

Music could be used to track human migration patterns over history, new research suggests. That conclusion, described Tuesday in the journal Proceedings of the Royal Society B, came from examining a ...

Visitors to the ongoing exhibition Origin and Expansions: The Austronesians and Maritime Civilization at the Chongqing China Three Gorges Museum watch artifacts on display. In the 17th and 18th ...