austronesians

Taiwan is probably the homeland of the austronesian family language and is not that far from japan, considering their strong naval tradition, is not hard to think austronesians landing in Japan before the Yayoi. What do you think about a austronesian japan society ? More ties to Taiwan...

Aside from the well-known periodic visits by Buginese trepangers, the controversial Kilwa coin and Western Austronesian traders in the Torres Strait, there doesn’t seem to have been much contact between the Old World and Australia. Would it have been possible for contact to be more intense that...

Is it possible for the Austronesians to migrate a little to the north and displace the Sino-Tibetans from the North China Plain?

In our timeline, Mauritius, Réunion, and the rest of the Mascarene Islands as a whole weren't settled until the dutch came after the Portugeuse discovered it, which is odd since its not too far from Madagascar. With a POD of 500, have at least one of the austronesians be blown off course or...

What if there had been no Austronesians who came to Madagascar? How might the history of the island be affected? Would there be broader consequences?

So Chamorro from the Mariana Islands sail north and settle the Bonin Islands in Japan, how does this change history? How does Japan react? How do European powers react? Do the Bonin Micronesians end up as another Ainu?

One of those events in OTL that would probably be dismissed as implausible if it was in an ATL is the settlement of Madagascar. The island is usually thought to have been settled by both Bantu people and seafearers from Borneo about 2000 years ago. Today the Malagasy language is Austronesian and...

FOREWORD A year and two weeks ago (12th June 2017), I've created a new Philippine-centric timeline in which the PoD was the ancestors of OTL Chams (and possibly Acehnese) went to the eastern part of the Manila Bay region, where they've encountered tribes who speak (a direct variant/descendant)...