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Huh, 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
by inawarminister 4y ago
Huh, 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 %.