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Archaeology and the Austronesian expansion: Where are we now?

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2011

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Spriggs, Matthew

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Antiquity Publications

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For many years the author has been tracking the spread of the Neolithic of Island Southeast Asia (ISEA) and its extension eastwards into the western Pacific, as a proxy for dating the spread of the Austronesian (AN) languages across that same vast area. Here he recalls the evidence, updates the hypothesis and poses some new questions.

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Keywords: Austronesian languages; Island Southeast Asia; Lapita; Neolithic

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http://hdl.handle.net/1885/68694

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ANU Research Publications

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Antiquity

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2037-12-31

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