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6k-year-old skull found in Taiwan possibly confirms legend of Indigenous tribe
- max_ 4y ago>Others see them as former enemies. One group claims to have killed off the last of the ancient people 1,000 years ago.
- xhevahir 4y agoI was surprised to read a while ago that all known Polynesian peoples are descended from groups that migrated from Taiwan. Apparently the story is not that simple though: https://www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.1503205112 https://www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.1503205112 (The skull in this article would have belonged to a still earlier occupant of the island, of course.)
- assttoasstmgr 4y agoI'm sure Taiwan will start rolling out those land acknowledgements.
- dang 4y agoCould you please stop posting unsubstantive and/or flamebait comments? It's not what this site is for. https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
- inawarminister 4y agoHuh, so ALL of the Pacific islands (and lands) that we Austronesians roamed (with the exception of Eastern Pacific and NZ) had Negrito aboriginal peoples before. Interesting. Make sense how, uh, driven the Austronesian expansion was, then. Basically the other islands you roam into have the same climate, trees, resources, and aboriginal peoples. (Until you hit Palau, beyond which was virgin land - and Sumatra-Java, who already had Austro-Asiatic farming settlers before they got assimilated, I believe) Madagascar too was virgin land before the Malagasy came from Borneo.
- 411111111111111 4y agoIsn't almost everyone aboriginal if you do back far enough? I remember dimly from school back in the day that homo sapiens supposedly started in Africa, or has that been overturned since?
- tidenly 4y agoAboriginal means the peoples in a land before it was colonized. Sure most people with have some aboriginal blood for somewhere in them, but most people who call themselves aboriginal have a significant %.