The east coast county of Taitung is home to beautiful mountains, valleys and beaches and it's also the place to experience different cultures. Taitung County has become a center of archaeology and ...

Isidore Dyen, an emeritus professor of linguistics at Yale who is known for his seminal work on Austronesian languages and Proto-Austronesian (the ancestral language of languages from Indonesia to ...

TAIPEI (Taiwan News) — Small Island Big Song (小島大歌) is a successful music and film project that connects with Austronesian culture by working with hundreds of famous musicians from 16 island countries ...

Featuring artifacts that showcase the cultural and lifestyle heritage of Austronesian-speaking peoples, the Keqiutou Site Museum in Pingtan, East China's Fujian Province, recently added a total of 103 ...

A book to be published this week, "T o the End of the Earth", claims that ancient Europeans visited and even lived in New Zealand 2,000 or more years ago. (Refer Egyptians, Greeks came to New Zealand ...

The Austronesian Expansion, which began around 5,500 years ago likely in modern-day Taiwan, was the most geographically extensive dispersal of farming peoples in prehistory, ultimately carrying people ...

Possession in some Austronesian languages shows levels of elaboration far in excess of cross-linguistic norms, while in others it is strikingly unelaborated. The appearance of alienable/inalienable ...

The 27-bp deletion in the erythrocyte band 3 gene (B3Δ27) constitutes a genetic basis for Southeast Asian and Melanesian ovalocytosis. The distribution of B3Δ27 has been interpreted to reflect malaria ...