6k-year-old skull found in Taiwan possibly confirms legend of Indigenous tribe

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I 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

(The skull in this article would have belonged to a still earlier occupant of the island, of course.)

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.

Isn'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?

Aboriginal 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 %.

>Others see them as former enemies. One group claims to have killed off the last of the ancient people 1,000 years ago.

I'm sure Taiwan will start rolling out those land acknowledgements.

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