c. 3000 BCE–c. 1300 CE
Austronesian maritime dispersals across the Indo-Pacific
Oceans, navigation & cartography · Ocean navigation · Indigenous knowledge
Austronesian-speaking communities expanded over millennia through Island Southeast Asia, the Pacific, and as far as Madagascar. This broad period combines distinct migrations rather than one expedition and shows how vessels, environmental navigation, and cultural transmission connected more than half the planet.
Precision, calendar, and review
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- Calendar and convention
- Historical-era years; the source calendar is not identified. No conversion of days is assumed.
- Year zero
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Sources
- 1. www.cambridge.org (opens in a new tab)
Source provenance and scope
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- 2024-01
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- 2. whc.unesco.org (opens in a new tab)
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- 2026-09-23
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