Did austronesians reach the carribean? I thought they made it to madagascar and hawaii, but not the carribean.
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match@pawb.social 1 week ago
they only think coconuts floated over on their own 500 years ago because austronesians are supernaturally invisible to white people
belastend@slrpnk.net 1 week ago
undeffeined@lemmy.ml 1 week ago
Bingo. I thought this was interesting and went looking for more information and its fake. They were brought to other parts of the world, first by austronesians and later by European sailors.
sem@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 week ago
Someone in this thread needs to say who austronesians are
booly@sh.itjust.works 1 week ago
They’re basically the proto Pacific Islanders. It’s believed that their civilizations all trace back to a group of people from the island of Taiwan/Formosa, who learned how to sail over the deep ocean and set up new communities.
They settled modern day Indonesia, Malaysia, the Philippines, as far west as Madagascar, and as far east as Melanesia, Micronesia, and Polynesia, and most of the other Pacific Islands. Native Hawaiians, Samoans, Guamese, etc., are all Austronesian. Most ethnic groups considered native to these islands trace back to Austronesian expansion.
There are shared linguistic and cultural ties that showed that they had recent comment ancestry, that has since been confirmed by DNA genealogy.
Mouselemming@sh.itjust.works 1 week ago
Makes a lot more sense than ASTROnesians, as spelled above, which makes them sound like aliens. Which is silly, because everyone knows aliens only land in either densely populated metropolitan areas (NYC, Tokyo, etc) or in the desert near Area 51.