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Taiwanese archaeologists working on an islet off China have unearthed the remains of a Stone Age male who may provide clues about ancient people who eventually dispersed throughout the entire Pacific.<\/strong><\/p>\n

The man, who was about 35 when he died nearly eight thousand years ago<\/strong>, may be a remote relative of Taiwan’s aborigines who today make up about two percent of the island’s population, according to the head of the team, Chen Chung-yu.<\/p>\n

Taiwan’s aborigines belong to the same language family, as do the people who migrated across the Pacific as far as Eastern Island off the coast of Chile in prehistoric times.<\/p>\n

Chen and his team of three excavated the remains — a nearly complete skeleton — on Liang Island, a tiny Taiwanese-controlled islet 30 kilometres (19 miles) off China’s southeastern Fujian province, in December.<\/p>\n

The burial site had emerged purely by chance, as the Taiwanese military was digging up the soil to prepare for the construction of a road on the 1.4-kilometre (0.9-mile island).<\/p>\n

What struck Chen when he carried out the meticulous excavation work was the way the body was buried<\/strong> — in a foetal position like the one used by Taiwan’s aborigines as late as the 20th century.<\/p>\n

Further DNA research on the skeleton will determine the genetic make-up of the skeleton, which is one of the oldest and best preserved ever to turn up on Taiwan.<\/p>\n

But it is likely that there could be a link, since the ancestors of Taiwan’s aborigines, and of most Pacific islanders, are believed to have lived in what is now southern China at that time.<\/p>\n

Source AP<\/em>
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