QUOTE (elleX0 @ Oct 29 2009, 04:37 AM)

Excellent filipinoy. It provides much more detail. So it looks like man came from Africa to China and then From China to the Pacific Islands. So the ancestors of the Pacific islands came from south China. That is going to be difficult for some people to stomach?
The Aetas, the Aborigines of Australia and the whole ancestors of Humanity were migrants from East Africa, based on the recent mitochondrial studies, passing from the Horn of Africa to the Gulf of Aden and finally to Sundaland and Australia. And from the sunking of the Sundaland (biblical Noah's flood? during the melting of the polar ice caps at the end of the pleistocene ice age) ten thousand years ago came the ancestors of the Austrics and some migrated to South Asia mixing with the natives there becoming the ancestors of the Indo-Aryans or Indo-Europeans, others going northwards to become the rice-cultivating settlers of South China onwards to the yayoi and jomon cultures of korea and japan. The divergence phenotypically from the short stature kinky haired dark colored pygmies to a taller whiter skinned straight haired Austrics coming from a single gene pool occured in Sundaland...
THE EVE OF AFRICA: single origin of man and GENETIC studies
http://www.newstatesman.com/blogs/paul-rod...d-spread-taiwanThe Bellwood's Theory or popularly known as the Out of Taiwan or South China theory has a concept of everything diffusing from Taiwan, then to the Philippines, then to the rest of Southeast Asia, Polynesia, etc. That the Ancestors of Malays, Filipinos, Hawaiians, Polynesians, Indonesians, the Malagasy speakers of Madagascar, the Maoris of New Zealand, etc. came from South China, then passed to Taiwan and to the Philippine isles. And so the Malagasy speaker from Madagascar and at the other end of the globe, the Polynesians from Easter Island off the coast of South America have one or few ancestors in common passing through Taiwan and the Philippines as their staging point for migrations as the central axis to both sides of the globe. And this occurs at the most 5,000 years ago.
But genetic studies done as published here...
http://www.newstatesman.com/blogs/pa...-spread-taiwan are saying that a more earlier migrations than the linguist Bellwood's theory is proving that the reverse direction might be true, that more larger migrations occuring much earlier than 5,000 years ago from Sundaland onwards northwards radiating towards Taiwan, South China, to as far as Korea and Japan via the landbridge or by boat during the times of rising sea levels at the end of the last glacial period or Ice Age. Dr. Oppenheimer and the Paleontologist Solheim even dared to say that the Hindu civilization and the earliest western civilization, Sumer owe much of their civilizations from those migrants coming from Sundaland.
http://www.newstatesman.com/blogs/paul-rod...d-spread-taiwanQUOTE
Their results show that the biggest migration went not from Taiwan, but to it, and occurred much earlier...
One of the more intriguing suggestions in the past decade is that the initial spread of humans from Africa extended along the southern coastline of Eurasia, to what is now Southeast Asia, then a subcontinent called Sundaland that was twice the size of modern India, stretching from Burma to Borneo. The flooding of this fertile paradise as the last Ice Age ended forced these people to adapt to new lifestyles, flee to new lands, or become extinct.
DNA research led by Leeds University’s Martin Richards, one of only two professors of archaeogenetics in the world, supports this idea, showing that the stone-age people on the southeastern shore of Sundaland expanded across the newly formed island chains 12,000 years ago.
The new theory, published in the journal Molecular Biology and Evolution, is likely to draw bitter criticism from supporters of the old consensus, based on linguistics, that the area is populated today by descendants of a rice-growing people called the Austronesians who expanded from Taiwan just 4,000 years ago. “Some quite forceful archaeologists have been extremely reluctant to accept this,” says Professor Richards. “And I haven’t met a single linguist willing to give up the out-of-Taiwan argument.”
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/comm...a_and_Sahul.pngThere must be major impulse for migrations of such magnitude to take place, so as to accelerate maritime technologies of the Proto Austronesians. Upheavals like the Noah's flood scenario, like the melting of the ice caps, or the end of the ice age, that will push, chronologies higher at or before 10,000 years ago and not just the 5,200 years ago of the Out of Taiwan theory.
But in fairness to the Out of Taiwan theory, a similar rising sea level might have occured on that time frame of 5,200 years ago. Perhaps this would reconcile the two theories, where migrations happened on a series of waves coinciding with the gradual rising of sealevels. As my memory serves me right, that the last rising of sealevel occured just about at that time period of Out of Taiwan theory which is 5,200 years ago. Edit: last rising was at 7,600 years ago
That migrations happened on both directions should never be discounted. As these two theories can easily be reconciled. But since the one with a higher chronologies could supplant the one with the lower, we are safe to assume that Taiwan is not the homeland of the Malayo-Polynesians.
another interesting link...
http://pl.net/~keithr/rfc2001113OriginsEden.htmlBack to topic.
Maori tatoos
http://homepages.ihug.co.nz/~tonyf/explore/maori.jpghttp://www.smithsonianmag.com/history-arch...?c=y&page=5Ancient Luzon people and Vishayan tatoos
http://www.ngkhai.com/pointcebu/culture/Tattoo.htmhttp://www.apat-na-alon-tribe.com/history1.htmlSorry I thought this is Filipino Chat
Indonesian tatoo history...
http://tattoojoy.com/tattoo_history/indonesia.htm