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H2020Staff exchange2020–2025

OCSEAN · OCeanic and South East Asian Navigators.

Horizon 2020 — Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions

Duration
2020-01-01 → 2025-12-31
EU contribution
€2,042,400
Participants
27
Scheme
MSCA-RISE

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Results in brief

OCeanic and South East Asian Navigators.

The Oceanic and South East Asian Navigators (OCSEAN) project unites researchers from Canada, Europe, Island Southeast Asia and Oceania to re-evaluate our understanding of the Austronesian expansion. It does so using new high-density data from archaeology, biological anthropology, linguistics and genetics, and aims to unite them within a common statistical framework. OCSEAN achieves a true synthesis of disciplines using state-of-the-art computational and statistical methods to interrogate the structural relationship between joint data sets. The research contextualizes the expansion of the Austronesian language family within the growing evidence for social and political complexity across Island Southeast Asia and coastal mainland regions prior to the arrival of rice and millet agriculture to Taiwan during the mid 5th millennium BP. It also takes into account the rich history of interaction since the spread of the Malayo-Polynesian branch of Austronesian outside of Taiwan. OCSEAN brings together leading researchers from the humanities and sciences and combines the resources of multiple laboratories to tackle questions that can only be addressed with this extensive network of cooperation. We will embrace the complexities of the archaeological, genetic and linguistic records, providing an alternative to directional, progressive and technological deterministic models, whilst recognizing the difficulties inherent in identifying concepts of culture or ethnicity with archaeological evidence, because of the very fluidity of these constructs. Through our combined expertise, we will demonstrate that a new way of working with big data leads to new insights at the small scale. In doing so, it will fundamentally change the way people do research.

Data: CORDIS, © European Union

Project objective

This proposal unites researchers from Canada, Europe, Island Southeast Asia and Oceania to re-evaluate our understanding of the Austronesian expansion. It does so using new high-density data from archaeology, biological anthropology, linguistics and genetics, and aims to unite them within a common statistical framework. OCSEAN achieves a true synthesis of disciplines using state-of-the-art computational and statistical methods to interrogate the structural relationship between joint data sets. The research contextualizes the expansion of the Austronesian language family within the growing evidence for social and political complexity across Island Southeast Asia and coastal mainland regions prior to the arrival of rice and millet agriculture to Taiwan during the mid 5th millennium BP. It also takes into account the rich history of interaction since the spread of the Malayo-Polynesian branch of Austronesian outside of Taiwan. OCSEAN brings together leading researchers from the humanities and sciences and combines the resources of multiple laboratories to tackle questions that can only be addressed with this extensive network of cooperation. We will embrace the complexities of the archaeological, genetic and linguistic records, providing an alternative to directional, progressive and technological deterministic models, whilst recognizing the difficulties inherent in identifying concepts of culture or ethnicity with archaeological evidence, because of the very fluidity of these constructs. Through our combined expertise, we will demonstrate that a new way of working with big data leads to new insights at the small scale. In doing so, it will fundamentally change the way people do research.

Original text from CORDIS.

Participants

  • TARTU ULIKOOL · TartuCoordinatorEstonia
  • ACADEMIA SINICA · TaipeiTaiwan
  • DAVAO MEDICAL SCHOOL FOUNDATION INC · DAVAO CITYPhilippines
  • EBERHARD KARLS UNIVERSITAET TUEBINGEN · TuebingenGermany
  • EIJKMAN INSTITUTE FOR MOLECULAR BIOLOGY · JakartaCity levelIndonesia
  • IFUGAO STATE UNIVERSITY · LamutPhilippines
  • MACKAY MEDICAL FOUNDATION,THE PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH IN TAIWAN · TAIPEI CITYTaiwan
  • MASSEY UNIVERSITY · Palmerston NorthNew Zealand
  • MEDIZINISCHE UNIVERSITAT INNSBRUCK · InnsbruckAustria
  • MUSEUM NATIONAL D'HISTOIRE NATURELLE · ParisFrance
  • NATIONAL YANG-MING UNIVERSITY · TaipeiTaiwan
  • National Central University · JhongliTaiwan
  • Simon Fraser University · BurnabyCanada
  • THE AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL UNIVERSITY · CANBERRAAustralia
  • THE UNIVERSITY OF AUCKLAND · AucklandNew Zealand
  • THE UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY · SydneyAustralia
  • UNIVERSITAET BERN · BernSwitzerland
  • UNIVERSITAS KRISTEN ARTHA WACANA KUPANG · Oesapa KupangIndonesia
  • UNIVERSITAS UDAYANA · BadungIndonesia
  • UNIVERSITE DE TOULOUSE · ToulouseFrance
  • UNIVERSITEIT LEIDEN · LeidenNetherlands
  • UNIVERSITY OF BRISTOL · BRISTOLUnited Kingdom
  • UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII · HonoluluUnited States
  • UNIVERSITY OF THE SOUTH PACIFIC · SuvaFiji
  • UPPSALA UNIVERSITET · UppsalaSweden
  • Universitas Negeri Papua · Manokwari, Papua BaratIndonesia
  • University of Papua New Guinea · Port MoresbyPapua New Guinea

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Data: CORDIS, © European Union