ABSTRACT
Review article of: Austronesian studies relating to Taiwan, ed. by Paul JenKuei et al. (Taipei, 1995). Focuses on the papers which are concerned with the question of Taiwan’s role in the prehistory of the Austronesians. Agrees with R. Blust that Taiwan was the location of Proto Austronesian (PAN). Suggests that the ‘shape’ of the archaeological record in Taiwan and adjacent areas resembles the ‘shape’ of Austronesian language subgroup diversification and dispersal. Believes that the two track the same historical events. Concludes that a uniform red-slipped pottery assemblage was spread, with no local antecedents, together with domesticated pigs and dogs, stone adzes, shell ornaments, and Austronesian languages, over a vast area of the Philippines and eastern Indonesia commencing around 4,000 B.P, to finally enter the Pacific in its Lapita manifestation. Finds that the volume reviewed contributes to the search for the origins of this dispersal, [mk]
1295 Larick, Roy The first Asians : a cave in China yields evidence of the earliest migration out of Africa / by Roy Larick and Russell Ciochon. Archaeology 49/1 (1996): 51-53.
