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Description: The intention of this volume is to examine the implications and consequences of the complex heritage by which Austronesian peoples and societies are linked by branching lines of common ancestry spanning the past 6000 years. The Comparative Austronesian Study Project under whose auspices this volume took shape was intended to draw together anthropological, archaeological and linguistic approaches for the study of the Austronesian-speaking populations and to fashion a general framework for the mutual interpretation of the complexities of the Austronesain heritage. The disciplines drawn upon to illuminate aspects of Austronesian culutre and history include linguistics, genetics, zoogeography and social anthropology. Cross-cutting are other disciplines which draw their data directly out of traces of humanity and human activity which survive from the remoter past. These disciplines including archaeology, palaeoanthropology and literary history. The chapters in this volume have been organised in two sections, the first focusing on questions of origins and dispersal, the second on questions of the interactions and transformations which Austronesian peoples and societies have undergone since dispersal occurred.
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