Austronesian culture rises to the surface

Austronesian culture is unearthed by archeological discoveries that are displayed at the National Museum of Prehistory.

" According to current research, Taiwan is at the northern end of the vast area in which Austronesian languages are spoken, which stretches to Easter Island in the east, Madagascar in the west and New Zealand to the south. Some researchers even believe that Taiwan may be the "original land" or "ancestral land" for all the peoples who speak Austronesian languages on the islands in the South Pacific and Indian oceans."

"The language used by Taiwanese Aboriginal people is also an Austronesian language, so the country's 400,000 Aborigines are Taiwan's representatives of the Austronesian people."
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Experts differ over origin of ancient pictographs

 


"Recently, Jorge H. Jimenez, a UTEP scholar who has taught at the University of New Mexico, told a group of journalists and others meeting at Casa Mayapan that there are indications that the prehistoric pictographs are Mayan or were influenced by the Mayans.

The late anthropologist Kay Sutherland Toness, a noted scholar who used to teach at El Paso Community College, and Polly Schaafsma, a rock painting expert in Santa Fe, have said that Mesoamerican cultures influenced the prehistoric pictographs that might date from A.D. 620 Mesoamerican cultures, include the Mayans, Aztecs and Mixtecs."

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Southernmost Illinois History

Mississippian Era - Cahokia Moundbuilders
"While Europe was in the Dark Ages, and crusaders fought holy wars, a Native American culture thrived in Southwestern and Southernmost Southern Illinois. They were known as the Mississippian Moundbuilders."
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Lighthouse added to registry of historic places

 

'A lighthouse south of Ketchikan has been added to the National Register of Historic Places in recognition of the beauty and style of the 1935 Art Deco building and the role it played keeping mariners off the rocks as they navigated the Inside Passage'.

'Tree Point Light Station, a 76-acre rocky site on the west coast of the mainland at the southern entrance to Revillagigedo Channel, less than 10 miles from Canadian waters, began beaming its light in April 1904'.
URL news site:Historic Light House