Sun, Aug 29, 2004 - Page 2 News List

Data links early settlers to African diaspora

DIFFERENT STORIES While genetic research puts this land on a main route of early humans' dispersion, anthropologists tie early settlements to the Pearl River Delta

By Wang Hsiao-wen  /  STAFF REPORTER

"Based on comparison of pottery traits, it could be said that the region of the southeast coast of China, including Taiwan, is the Austronesian homeland," Tsang said.

"In the quest for origin, different disciplines have different compasses and road maps. At the edge of the knowable, every evidence has its own message," Tsang said to explain the discrepancy between the genetic and anthropological findings.

"Hopefully, as more clues come to light, one day the scientists, anthropologists and linguists will tell the same story of human beings, a story of where we all come from."

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