- by Austronesian-speaking
peoples are
sometimes known collectively as
Austronesia. They
originated from a
prehistoric seaborne migration,
known as the...
- The
chicken (Gallus
gallus domesticus) is a
large and
round short-winged bird,
domesticated from the red
junglefowl of
Southeast Asia
around 8,000 years...
- and Micronesia.
There are
numerous names for
paper mulberry throughout Austronesia, the most
general can be
reconstructed to Proto-Central
Eastern Malayo-Polynesian...
- Knucklebones, also
known as
scatter jacks, snobs,
astragaloi (singular: astragalus), tali, dibs, fivestones, jacks, jackstones, or jinks,
among many other...
-
Ancient history is a time
period from the
beginning of
writing and
recorded human history through late antiquity. The span of
recorded history is roughly...
- In folklore, a
ghost is the soul or
spirit of a dead
person or non-human
animal that is
believed by some
people to be able to
appear to the living. In...
-
Barkcloth or bark
cloth is a
versatile material that was once
common in Asia, Africa, and the Pacific.
Barkcloth comes primarily from
trees of the family...
- Soul dualism, also
called dualistic pluralism or
multiple souls, is a
range of
beliefs that a
person has two or more
kinds of souls. In many cases, one...
- Dog meat, also
known as
fragrant meat or
simply fragrant, is the meat
derived from dogs.
Historically human consumption of dog meat has been
recorded in...
-
Artificial cranial deformation Artificial cranial deformation or modification, head flattening, or head
binding is a form of body
alteration in
which the...
