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4,000-Year-Old Portable Austronesian Art Found on Wetar
Archaeologists have uncovered a 4,000-year-old portable painted plaque from Wetar Island in eastern Indonesia, marking the first known portable example of Austronesian Painting Tradition art and providing a securely dated reference for the iconic red sun-ray motif. The find suggests Austronesian symbolic art traveled with seafaring communities—potentially playing a role in their rapid dispersal from Taiwan through Island Southeast Asia and the Pacific—and predates pottery, highlighting ideology as a driver of one of humanity’s greatest migrations.
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The Austronesian peoples, sometimes referred to as Austronesian-speaking peoples, are a large collection of peoples who speak Austronesian languages, having settled in Taiwan, maritime Southeast Asia, parts of mainland Southeast Asia, Micronesia, coastal New Guinea, Island Melanesia, Polynesia, and Madagascar. They also include indigenous ethnic minorities in Vietnam, Cambodia, Myanmar, Thailand and Hainan. The nations and territories predominantly populated by Austronesian-speaking peoples are sometimes known collectively as Austronesia.

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