Editing History of Southeast Asia (section)

===Neolithic migrations===
[[File:The proposed route of Austroasiatic and Austronesian migration into Indonesia and the geographic distribution of sites that have produced red-slipped and cord-marked pottery.png|thumb|Proposed routes of [[Austroasiatic languages|Austroasiatic]] and [[Austronesian peoples|Austronesian]] migrations into [[Indonesia]]<ref name="Simanjuntak2017">{{cite book|first1=Truman|last1=Simanjuntak|authorlink=Harry Truman Simanjuntak|editor1-first= Philip J.|editor1-last= Piper, Hirofumi Matsumura and David Bulbeck|editor2-first= Hirofumi |editor2-last=Matsumura |editor3-first= David |editor3-last=Bulbeck|title =New Perspectives in Southeast Asian and Pacific Prehistory|chapter =The Western Route Migration: A Second Probable Neolithic Diffusion to Indonesia|publisher =ANU Press|series =terra australis|volume=45|year =2017|isbn =9781760460952|chapter-url =http://press-files.anu.edu.au/downloads/press/n2320/html/ch11.xhtml?referer=&page=18}}</ref>]]

The [[Neolithic]] was characterized by several migrations into [[Mainland Southeast Asia|Mainland]] and [[Island Southeast Asia]] from southern [[China]] by [[Austronesian languages|Austronesian]], [[Austroasiatic]], [[Kra-Dai]] and [[Hmong-Mien]]-speakers.<ref>{{cite book |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=0b-6wpalR40C&pg=PA102|page=102|title=The Cambridge History of Southeast Asia, Volume One, Part One |publisher=Cambridge University Press|isbn=978-0-521-66369-4 |last1=Tarling |first1=Nicholas |year=1999 }}</ref>
[[File:Chronological dispersal of Austronesian people across the Pacific.svg|thumb|right|The [[Austronesian Expansion]]<br>(3500&nbsp;BCE{{En dash}}1200&nbsp;CE)<ref>{{cite book |last1=Chambers |first1=Geoffrey K. |title=eLS |date=2013 |publisher=American Cancer Society |isbn=978-0-470-01590-2 |doi=10.1002/9780470015902.a0020808.pub2 |language=en |chapter=Genetics and the Origins of the Polynesians}}</ref>]]

The most widespread migration event was the [[Austronesian expansion]], which began around 5,500&nbsp;[[Before Present|BP]] (3,500&nbsp;BCE) from [[Taiwan]] and coastal southern [[China]]. Due to their early invention of ocean-going [[outrigger boat]]s and voyaging [[catamaran]]s, Austronesians rapidly colonized [[Island Southeast Asia]], before spreading further into [[Micronesia]], [[Melanesia]], [[Polynesia]], [[Madagascar]] and the [[Comoros]]. They dominated the lowlands and coasts of Island Southeast Asia, intermarrying with the indigenous [[Negrito]] and [[Papuan People|Papuan]] peoples to varying degrees, giving rise to modern [[Islander Southeast Asians]], [[Micronesian people|Micronesians]], [[Polynesians]], [[Melanesians]] and [[Malagasy people|Malagasy]].<ref>{{cite web |url=http://sealang.net/sala/archives/pdf4/blust1992austronesian.pdf |archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/archive/20221009/http://sealang.net/sala/archives/pdf4/blust1992austronesian.pdf |archive-date=2022-10-09 |url-status=live |title=THE AUSTRONESIAN SETTLEMENT OF MAINLAND SOUTHEAST ASIA |publisher=Sealang |access-date=2 January 2017}}</ref><ref>{{cite journal|last1=Lipson|first1=Mark|last2=Loh|first2=Po-Ru|last3=Patterson|first3=Nick|last4=Moorjani|first4=Priya|last5=Ko|first5=Ying-Chin|last6=Stoneking|first6=Mark|last7=Berger|first7=Bonnie|last8=Reich|first8=David|title=Reconstructing Austronesian population history in Island Southeast Asia|journal=Nature Communications|date=19 August 2014|volume=5|pages=4689|doi=10.1038/ncomms5689|pmid=25137359|pmc=4143916|bibcode=2014NatCo...5.4689L}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.omnivoyage.org/Austronesian_SE_Asia.htm |title=Austronesian Southeast Asia: An outline of contemporary issues |publisher=Omnivoyage |access-date=2 January 2017 |archive-date=25 September 2016 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160925123531/http://www.omnivoyage.org/Austronesian_SE_Asia.htm |url-status=dead }}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.rogerblench.info/Archaeology/SE%20Asia/Blench%20Springer%20Handbook%20chapter%20final%20Dec%202014.pdf |archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/archive/20221009/http://www.rogerblench.info/Archaeology/SE%20Asia/Blench%20Springer%20Handbook%20chapter%20final%20Dec%202014.pdf |archive-date=2022-10-09 |url-status=live |title=Origins of Ethnolinguistic Identity in Southeast Asia  |publisher=Roger Blench |access-date=2 January 2017}}</ref>

The [[Austroasiatic languages|Austroasiatic]] migration wave involved the [[Mon people|Mon]] and [[Khmer people|Khmer]] peoples and migrated to the broad riverine floodplains of [[Burma]], [[Indochina]] and [[Malaysia]].<ref>{{cite book |last1=Sidwell |first1=Paul |last2=Blench |first2=Roger |chapter-url=http://rogerblench.info/Archaeology/SE%20Asia/SR09/Sidwell%20Blench%20offprint.pdf |archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/archive/20221009/http://rogerblench.info/Archaeology/SE%20Asia/SR09/Sidwell%20Blench%20offprint.pdf |archive-date=2022-10-09 |url-status=live |chapter=The Austroasiatic Urheimat: the Southeastern Riverine Hypothesis |editor-last=Enfield |editor-first=N.J. |title=Dynamics of Human Diversity |pages=317–345 |place=Canberra |publisher=Pacific Linguistics |date=2011 |isbn=9780858836389 }}</ref>{{Failed verification|reason=This article actually proposes a dispersal from within Southeast Asia circa 3800 BP.|date=August 2022}}