The Polynesian never stopped Exploring.

This is of no relevance.


Everybody already knows that Malagasy has the clearest links to Borneo and other parts of eastern Indonesia. However, Polynesia is not anywhere near eastern Indonesia. Polynesians emerged in western Polynesia from the Lapita traditions there.

"Polynesian" does not mean "Oceanian," nor does it mean "Austronesian." It's a word with a very clearly defined usage.


...none of whom are Polynesian.

My Malagasy Motif derives from Proto-Lapita ancestors who are also foundational stock with Polynesians, Micronesians and Near Oceanians from Eastern Indonesia to East Polynesia.

Also no you did not read the paper, the current understanding in a Paternal Banjar derivation. Not maternal. This also explains the "Oceanian" autosomal dna found in Malagasy people today.

The understanding of a "sea nomad" connection has been solidified only recently.

It is also common in Micronesia and parts of Near Oceania,2, 3, 5, 12, 13, 14,15, 16, 17, 18 where it is not necessarily restricted to Austronesian speaking populations, but also occurs in some rare Papuan speaking groups.2, 18, 19 The motif is much less frequent in Island Southeast Asia, although it has been found sporadically in both central and eastern Indonesia.4, 6, 7, 11, 20, 21 In Madagascar – the western edge of the Austronesian expansion – the Polynesian motif reaches a frequency of around 20%,8, 9, 20, 22thus leading to proposals that the island was settled by an Indonesian population, which later colonized the Pacific Islands,8, 22 or even more speculatively, by direct migration from Polynesia itself
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2987306/

Regardless of an indirect or direct connection of later Polynesian societies a proto-Lapita cultural complex is directly related to Malagasy peoples via maternal predecessors.

You are conflating my understanding of Austronesian, Oceanian and Polynesian. I am well aware of the meaning of all three, it is you who does not understand the data.
 
Last edited:
Top