Talks of the Past öppet seminarium av CHP: Transdisciplinary approaches toward resolving the Austronesian problem
- Datum
- 5 november 2025, kl. 15.15–16.30
- Plats
- Blåsenhus, Blåsenhus, lärosal 13:028
- Typ
- Föreläsning, Seminarium
- Föreläsare
- Hugo Reyes Centeno
- Webbsida
- https://centerforthehumanpast.se/
- Arrangör
- Center for the Human Past (CHP)
- Kontaktperson
- Marzena Norling
- Telefon
- 0184715512
Talks of the Past (ToP) seminarier är öppna för alla intresserade av tvärvetenskaplig forskning inom områdena paleogenetik, arkeologi och lingvistik. Det är en serie seminarier som äger rum den första onsdagen i varje månad och följs av en diskussion och en fika. Seminarierna hålls på engelska.
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Abstract
Despite consensus on the movement of peoples from mainland Asia to Island Southeast Asia and the Pacific over the past five thousand years, the mode of dispersal and biocultural change remains highly contested.
While some hypotheses posit Austronesian-speaking agriculturalists rapidly dispersing via Taiwan, other scenarios postulate, for example, additional dispersal routes, the gradual and uneven adoption of agricultural practices, and dynamic language borrowing.
This talk will introduce current debates on the Austronesian problem, critically synthesising models developed from linguistic, archaeological, and genetic lines of evidence. In addition, it will draw on original fieldwork harnessing archaeological data collected from the Philippines to draw attention to the uneven sampling problem still affecting transdisciplinary studies of the human past in Southeast Asia and Oceania.