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Jade and language travelled together

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Skilled jade craftsmen may have helped to spread the Austronesian languages.

Prehistoric purveyors of jade spread their trade from a single Taiwanese source throughout a huge area of Southeast Asia, possibly bringing Austronesian languages with them.

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  1. Hung, H.-C. et al. Proc. Nat. Acad. Sci. USA doi 10.1073/pnas.0707304104 (2007).

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Sanderson, K. Jade and language travelled together. Nature (2007). https://doi.org/10.1038/news.2007.268

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