93 up the Austronesian language family lie scattered across the Pacifi c and Indian Oceans, but almost never occur on the Asian mainland—the Chamic languages of Vietnam’s central highlands being the sole exceptions. With a total of almost 400 million speakers, the family includes fi ve languages that have more than 15 million speakers apiece: Javanese (84 million), Malay/Indonesian (77 million), Sundanese (34 million), Tagalog (24 million), and Cebuano (16 million). By cross-referencing data from archaeology and comparative linguistics (and more recently genetics), prehistorians have been able to decipher the pathways of Austronesian migration. A consensus began to emerge in the 1980s in support of the theory that an identifi able culture belonging to proto-Austronesian peoples fi rst developed on the island that is now Taiwan about fi ve thousand years ago. By thirty-three hundred years ago successive generations of seafaring agriculturalists had progressively occupied new homelands throughout the Philippines and Indonesia and had sailed eastward FIG. 2 (right): Architectural panel. Paiwan, Taiwan. Early 20th century. Carved wood, porcelain, bottle caps. H: 185 cm. The H. P. and J. F. Ullman Collection, Fowler Museum at UCLA, inv. X72.833. Image © courtesy of the Fowler Museum at UCLA. Photo: Don Cole, 2014. FIG. 3 (below): Boatshaped funerary marker, Bajau peoples, Sulu Archipelago, Philippines, 19th to early 20th century. Wood. H: 119.4 cm. Gift of Eli Ballan, Fowler Museum at UCLA, inv. X80.1141a, b. Image © courtesy of the Fowler Museum at UCLA. Photo: Don Cole, 2014.
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