[Paper] The loss of biodiversity in Madagascar is contemporaneous with major demographic events

via Current Biology, 04 November 2022: A new paper by Alva et al. links a major loss of biodiversity in ...

[Paper] Negritos in Taiwan and the wider prehistory of Southeast Asia: new discovery from the Xiaoma Caves

6 October 2022

via World Archaeology, 04 October 2022: A paper by Hung et al. reveals the presence of pre-Austronesian populations in Taiwan, ...

Taitung university launches doctoral program on Austronesian studies

9 August 2022

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[Paper] Ancient genomes from the last three millennia support multiple human dispersals into Wallacea

14 June 2022 - Updated on 16 June 2022

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via Nature Ecology and Evolution, 09 June 2022: Genome sequences from 16 ancient humans shed light on the population explosion ...

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[Obituary] In Memoriam: Robert Blust, 1940-2022

3 March 2022

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The Taiwan Studies Programme at the University of Nottingham has a special issue for the late Robert Blust, who passed ...

What are Austronesian languages?

7 December 2021

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via The National, 03 December 2021: The Austronesian-speaking peoples and their dispersal across Southeast Asia from a Papua New Guinea ...

Origin of the Austronesians: book on one of the greatest migrations in human history launched in Taiwan

19 August 2021

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via Taiwan English News, 18 August 2021: Taiwan’s Council of Indigenous Peoples launches a book on the Austronesians. The article ...

[Paper] The first quantitative assessment of radiocarbon chronologies for initial pottery in Island Southeast Asia supports multi-directional Neolithic dispersal

9 June 2021

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via PLoS One, 02 June 2021: This new paper of pottery dates in Island Southeast Asia complicates our understanding of ...

[Paper] Shared paternal ancestry of Han, Tai‐Kadai‐speaking, and Austronesian‐speaking populations as revealed by the high resolution phylogeny of O1a‐M119 and distribution of its sub‐lineages within China

18 February 2021

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via American Journal of Physical Anthropology, 08 February 2021: A genetics paper exploring the lineages of the Han, Tai-Kadai and ...

Three books about Austronesian culture make Chinese debut

19 January 2021 - Updated on 22 January 2021

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via Taipei Times, 18 January 2021: Three books on Austronesian culture translated into Chinese: Bravo for the Marshalese: Regaining Control ...

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