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Authors: Heather Sutherland
Title: Patchwork Polities
Date: 2021
Source: Seaways and Gatekeepers: Trade and State in the Eastern Archipelagos of Southeast Asia, c.1600–c.1906
DOI: 10.2307/j.ctv1qwwhjg.10
Abstract: Between 2500 and 1500 BCE Austronesians from the north settled in “coastal and favourable inland regions of the Philippines, Sulawesi, Northern Borneo, Halmahera, and … as far southeast as Timor.”¹ They adapted to specific environments and developed in different ways as they moved through Southeast Asia, the Pacific and Madagascar.
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