1. Nusantao Maritime Trading and Communication Network (NMTCN)
Wilhelm Solheim II
and the
Nusantao Maritime Trading and Communication Network (NMTCN)

2. Wilhelm Solheim II
American archaeologist Wilhelm Solheim II has spent his career studying southeast Asian archaeology. Trained at the universities of California at Berkeley and Arizona, Solheim is considered a pioneer in the prehistoric archaeology of the Philippines and Southeast Asia

3. Filipinos and most South East Asians were maritime oriented population that developed since years ago in Southeast Asian mainland

4. Around years ago, the use of small boats probably started with routes including Siberia, Japan, South China, and North Vietnam as proved by similarities of heavy earthenware pottery found in these places.

5. Solheim hypothesized that single outriggers were used for small boats around these time as contacts between vietnam and Bismarck islands near New Guinea

6. Around 6000 years ago, Palawan and Mindanao would have been in contact with coastal Vietnam, south china bringing arboriculture into Philippines. Coastal South China would also have been in contact with North Luzon, Batanes and Babuyan islands.

7. Nusantao Maritime Trading and Communication Network
These groups of maritime people Solheim will call Nusantao forming the
Nusantao Maritime Trading and Communication Network

8. Pre Austronesian

9. Proto Austronesian

10. Malayo Polynesian

11. Nusantao Maritime Trading and Communication Network

12. Out of this trading region, Austronesian languages developed from Pre- and Proto-Austronesian languages to produce a lingua franca or a third-language common to all them

13. Nusantao probably originated along major rivers in mountains of Vietnam in late Pleistocene(12000BP)

14. The Nusantao started long distance trade that involved long distance communication of ideas, knowledge, genes and language needed for the trading. That is why, even of the absence of migration, many similar artifacts, ornaments were shared over a wide territory.

15. 10000 BP  Austric 9000 BP  Pre-Austronesian 8000 BP  Proto-Austronesian 7000 BP  Austronesian 7000 BP  Proto-Malayo-Polynesian 6000 BP  Malayo-Polynesian 6000 BP  Western Malayo Polynesian 6000 BP  Philippine Language

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