Chickens from Polynesia? Not so fast…

Friday, August 1st, 2008 Posted in General Archaeology, Peripheral Southeast Asia, Uncategorized | No Comments »

Remember last year's study about the Gallus gallus and how they proved the Polynesians crossed over into the Americas? A new study published this week seems to contradict that claim. Chicken ... Read more..

Chickens prove Polynesians crossed Pacific

Wednesday, June 6th, 2007 Posted in Southeast Asia | 2 Comments »

05 June 2007 (News in Science, National Geographic) - Why did the Chicken cross the pacific? Because the Polynesians brought them there, it seems. A 600-year-old chicken bone from Chile ... Read more..

Spotlight on Sabah’s stone age culture

Sunday, April 22nd, 2007 Posted in Borneo, Malaysia, Prehistory | No Comments »

22 April 2007 (New Straits Times) - Today's NST features a special spotlight on the stone age culture - past and ethnographic present. The first story is about the prehistory ... Read more..

Ministry To Fund Archeological Research In Bukit Tengkorak

Sunday, April 22nd, 2007 Posted in Malaysia | No Comments »

21 April 2007 (Bernama) - Archaeological research in Bukit Tengkorak, Sabah, on a prehistoric ceramics manufacturing site is set to continue, to unravel more answers on the migration and dispersal ... Read more..

Pig study forces rethink of Pacific colonisation

Tuesday, March 13th, 2007 Posted in Southeast Asia | No Comments »

13 March 2007 (EurekaAlerts) - Analysis of pig DNA in Southeast Asia and the pacific islands suggests nuances in the human migration within Southeast Asia. Pig study forces rethink of Pacific ... Read more..

Searching for the First Malayo-Polynesians: Research on the Taiwan and Philippine Neolithic

Friday, October 13th, 2006 Posted in Prehistory, Southeast Asia | 7 Comments »

12 October 2006 (Australian National University) - Public lecture at the ANU on Wednesday, 18 October by Dr. Peter Bellwood. Searching for the First Malayo-Polynesians: Research on the Taiwan and Philippine ... Read more..

Who are indigenous Indonesians?

Sunday, August 13th, 2006 Posted in Politics, Prehistory, Southeast Asia | No Comments »

11 Aug 2006 (Jakarta Post) - While this forum letter probably has a political undertone to it, it provides a concise overview about the diffusion of homo sapiens throughout southeast ... Read more..



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