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The most westerly Pacific island chain, running from Taiwan southwards through the Philippines, has long been central in debates about the origins and early migrations of Austronesian-speaking peoples from the Asian mainland into the islands of Southeast Asia and Oceania. Focusing on the Cagayan Valley of northern Luzon in the Philippines, the authors combine new and published radiocarbon dates to underpin a revised culture-historical synthesis. The results speak to the initial contacts and long-term relationships between Indigenous hunter-gatherers and immigrant Neolithic farmers, and the question of how the early speakers of Malayo-Polynesian languages spread into and through the Philippines.

The authors compare pottery assemblages in the Marianas and the Philippines to claim endorsement for a first human expansion into the open Pacific around 1500 BC. The Marianas are separated from the Philippines by 2300km of open sea, so they are proposing an epic pioneering voyage of men and women, with presumably some cultivated plants but apparently no animals. How did they manage this unprecedented journey?

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Preceramic riverside hunter-gatherers and the arrival of Neolithic farmers in northern Luzon

The first settlement of Remote Oceania: the Philippines to the Marianas

Southeast Asia. Earthenware in Southeast Asia. Edited by JOHN MIKSIC. Singapore: Singapore University Press, 2003. Pp. xxiii, 370. Maps, Figures, Bibliography, Index.

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Preceramic riverside hunter-gatherers and the arrival of Neolithic farmers in northern Luzon

The first settlement of Remote Oceania: the Philippines to the Marianas

Southeast Asia. Earthenware in Southeast Asia. Edited by JOHN MIKSIC. Singapore: Singapore University Press, 2003. Pp. xxiii, 370. Maps, Figures, Bibliography, Index.