Ref ID:	35700
Ref Type:	Journal Article
Authors:	Bellwood, Peter S.
Title:	The Austronesian dispersal and the origin of languages
Date:	1991
Source:	Scientific American
Abstract:	Investigates the origin and spread of the Austronesian language of the Pacific across 10,000 kilometers of coastline and sea within 1,500 years by agricultural colonists. Stages in the Austronesian expansion Linguistics Agricultural development in eastern Asia and the Pacific in ancient times.
Date Created:	3/14/2001
Volume:	265
Number:	1
Page Start:	88
Page End:	93