Ref ID:	37917
Ref Type:	Journal Article
Authors:	Peter Bellwood
Title:	The Austronesian Dispersal and the Origin of Languages
Date:	July 1991
Source:	Scientific American
Abstract:	The Austronesian languages of the Pacific spread across 10,000 kilometers of coastline and sea within 1,500 years, the fastest and widest expansion of prehistoric times. Farmers led the way.
Volume:	265
Page Start:	88
Page End:	93