AUSTRONESIAN peoples from Southeast Asia have occupied Papua New Guinea from 58,000. | wikPI |
New Guineans have inhabited Melanesia from 33,000. | wikPI |
New Guineans have occupied SOLOMON ISLANDS from at least 28,000BCE. | wikPI |
PHILIPPINES have been occupied by humans via land bridges from at least 28,000BCE. | wikPI |
c.8000 | People in New Guinea have a flake tool-chopper stone industry. | 8000 mxfld |
c.8000 | Asia-Pacific Neolithic age begins until 500. | 8000 mxfld, wikPP |
c.8000 | Land bridge from Siberia to Alaska is inundated. Later arriving Eskimos and Aleuts will come by boat and represent the classical Mongolian race, as contrasted to the earlier original Mongolian stock who came over about 20,000. | 8000 mxfld |
c.8000 | NEW GIUNEA, until now attached to Australia, is made an island by rising water level. But Aboriginal Australians and Papuans diverged from each other genetically about 35,000. New Guineans share 4%-7% of their genome with Denisovans, meaning their ancestors interbred in Asia. | 8000 wikPNG |
c.8000 | Philippines occupied by people. | 8000 mxfld |
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map: Carlhoff, et al 7000 wikTln |
c.7000 | Papuans begin agriculture in New Guinea: Sugarcane and some root crops such as taro are domesticated. Bananas are cultivated and hybridized. | 7000 PW 13, wikHAg, wikPNG |
c.6600 | BUDJ BIM on south coast of Australia has eel traps and several crops ranging from yams to bananas. | 6000 wikHAg |
c.6000 | Philippines, occupied from 8000, receive more people by sea from Indonesia, Malaysia, Indochina and the Arab world. | 6000 mxfld |
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map: Joe Roe |
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map Chumwa 4000 wikPI |
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4000 wikPI map Skimel |
c.3000 | Austronesians on Taiwan island learn long-distance canoe travel and spread themselves and their languages south to the Philippines, Indonesia, and maritime Southeast Asia; west towards Madagascar; southeast towards New Guinea and Melanesia (intermarrying with native Papuans); and east to Micronesia, Oceania and Polynesia. | 3000 wikPO |
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4-2000 wikPI map TUBS |
c.3000 | Iron METEORITE hits north Australia, possibly witnessed by Aborigines. | 3000 CWH |
c.3000 | DINGO introduced to Australia. | 3000 PW 14 |
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