Austroasiatic Dispersal: the AA "Water-World" Extended

<p>This paper asks if the locations of non-Northern Austroasiatic branches can be explained by maritime migrations from a centre of dispersal in northern Indo-China. Assuming that early Austroasiatics had an aquatic subsistence orientation in addition to cereal farming, they may have sought out new island or estuarine living spaces by near-coastal navigation.</p>