Comments on: Architectural preservation and history in Taiwan updates

By: Roy Berman

Roy Berman — Thu, 12 Feb 2009 03:20:52 +0000

Hey, notice how I don’t post any of my writing in Japanese in public? I think you’re doing OK…

By: Aceface

Aceface — Thu, 12 Feb 2009 03:19:31 +0000

Y’know.I need that auto translation device…..

By: Aceface

Aceface — Thu, 12 Feb 2009 03:13:22 +0000

Madagascar-Indonesia links are prove through both archaeological facts and DNA research if my fading memory is collect.But then again,I was a lazy student.

Using an outrigger canoe and star compass will take you pretty much elsewhere.
Going to Madagascal from Sumatra isn’t that difficult.

There was a group of Micronesians from Satawal came all the way from Micronesia to Osaka in 1970 Osaka EXPO only using traditional paddled canoe.The paddler used star compass and ancient song that memorize the navigational passage to Japan from Micronesia.It’s all in Kenneth Brower’s “Song for Satawal”,a good read.

There are many schools of thesis in Polynesian studies.So I’m not going to say how Taiwanese Aboriginals are “Polynesian”since I’m not accustomed to the latest Taiwanese research.

By: Roy Berman

Roy Berman — Thu, 12 Feb 2009 03:00:20 +0000

Wow, I didn’t know that was your major. Anyway, it seems like that theory has actually gotten more evidence over time. Just because it’s used to justify imperialism doesn’t mean it can’t also be true. But I’ll admit I don’t know much at all about the boundaries of different groups, so I’m not sure which groups exactly are considered to be descended from the ancient Taiwanese tribes.

I know I’ve heard a theory that the Madagascar people (at least partly) are descended from ancient Malays, but I have no idea if there’s any truth in it.

By: Aceface

Aceface — Thu, 12 Feb 2009 02:54:17 +0000

y’know,I was a mojor in Polynesian archaeology back in my college days….

The ancient population of Madagascal is know from sailing from Sumatra and they are not exactly a Polynesian.

Many Polynesian researchers think,ancient polynesia came from somewhere in continental South East Asia and spread all over South Pacific which eventually landed in today’s New Zealand.
Back in Japanese days,some researcher had claimed “Malayo-Polynesian” linguistic group origin of Taiwanese aboriginals and came out with hypotesis of them spread to South Pacific from Taiwan,which was also convenient for Japanese Southbound policy.After World War 1 Japan took Micronesia from Germany as a war booty and there was some boom of dreaming south seas.
But this “Malayo-polynesian”is a troublesome term nowdays and changed to more neutral”Austronesian” for there are distincitive difference between Polynesian and Micronesian/Melanesian.

By: Joe Jones

Joe Jones — Thu, 12 Feb 2009 02:07:17 +0000

I paid a visit to the Generalissimo on Monday and had the pleasure of watching a small dog lift its leg over the corner of his memorial and take a long, hard piss on it. The dog must have been a DPP supporter.

By: Roy Berman

Roy Berman — Mon, 09 Feb 2009 14:15:23 +0000

Well, Pangea was 250 million years ago…

That sounds more like a creation myth than any kind of scientific or historical theory. The linguistic and genetic evidence for the relationships between these groups seems pretty conclusive, from the admittedly casual reading I’ve done on the subject.

By: kamanakapu

kamanakapu — Mon, 09 Feb 2009 13:55:34 +0000

Here’s another point of view vis. polynesians: the ancient polynesian seafarers set sail for Maori from Madagaskar when that island was still part of ancient Africa/Pangea and all of the sailors were females who had had enought of the males and decided to get away from them. The women sailed along the coastline of africa (part of which became the current-asia) until they were in position to head out to maori (now called New Zealand by the white man) and RE-SETTLED! the land. So those women were apparently very familiar with the island and appeared to be ‘returning’ to it.