A combination of ancient knowledge and modern research techniques may be closing the gap between who some of the earliest ...

Students danced hula on stage at the Austronesian Joint Harvest Festival in Hualien County, Taiwan. It was a performance to remember in front of an estimated audience of more than 10,000 people.

We start our new series with Hawaii’s little-known connection to Taiwan, an island in East Asia that sits just below China. Mandarin is the main spoken language. Some speak Taiwanese Hokkien and Hakka ...

The term Austronesian—alternatively known as Malayo-Polynesian—encompasses the linguistic and cultural affiliations of island communities situated in the southern part of the Asian continent ...

Any useful life skill can be considered a life skill. For most people, these skills include tying shoelaces, swimming, driving a car, and using a computer. However, everyone will potentially have ...

“Our findings suggest that the Papuan and Austronesian migrations were so extensive that ... According to the researchers, there are challenges in reconstructing past movements of people using modern ...

"Our findings suggest that the Papuan and Austronesian migrations were so ... there are challenges in reconstructing past movements of people using modern genetic data due to historical migrations ...