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.
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sem@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 months agoSomeone in this thread needs to say who austronesians are
Mouselemming@sh.itjust.works 2 months ago
booly@sh.itjust.works 2 months 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.