The 'Express Train from Taiwan to Polynesia': On the congruence of proxy lines of evidence

World Archaeology

Volumn 36, Issue 4, 2004, Pages 591-600

  Oppenheimer, Stephen ^a,b  

^a Department of Anthropology   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Austronesian; Genetics; Historical linguistics; Island Southeast Asia; Migration; Physical anthropology

Indexed keywords

AGRICULTURE; ANTHROPOLOGY; LANGUAGE; MIGRATION;

ASIA; EASTERN HEMISPHERE; EURASIA; INDONESIA; OCEANIC REGIONS; PACIFIC ISLANDS; PACIFIC OCEAN; SOUTHEAST ASIA; WORLD;

EID: 11044237469     PISSN: 00438243     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/0043824042000303773     Document Type: Review

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