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3005 BCE

Past → now. Now is 2026, the corpus’s latest recorded state · 1145 objects · 280 located (1 withheld) · 865 unlocated

Now · 2026

concept

Austronesian

The family of roughly a thousand or more languages spread across the widest span of any pre-modern family: from Madagascar off East Africa, through island Southeast Asia and the…

No recorded place · dispersal from c. 3000 BCE; no early written attestation

Connections · 3 of 4

is adjacent to of Trans-New Guinea — Austronesian speakers settled the coasts and islands around a New Guinea already occupied by Papuan-speaking populations, producing long and intricate contact between the two.
originates in Taiwan — Nearly all primary branches of the family are Formosan, and genealogical diversity marks the region a lineage has occupied longest.
is affects of The Austronesian expansion — The dispersal produced the family's modern distribution, in which the branch with the fewest primary divisions covers nearly all of its geographic range.

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865 objects have no place. See why, and how they relate instead — a coordinate they do not have would be a claim, not a kindness. The count is corpus-wide; no lens or window changes it.One more object is located but its mark is withheld: the coordinate is declared, not yet verified, and an unverified pin reads as a fact.

The places on Earth

242

area: — A region, drawn as one. The centre is not a location.
point: — A surveyed position. The mark is where the thing is.
soft: — A curatorial choice within a larger extent. The mark is near, not at.
waypoint: — A stop on a route. A single point does not describe it.

In focus · 19

Outside the current lens or window · 223

1145 objects · 37 Knowledge Journeys · 852 recorded dated events (3005 BCE–2026), 51 imprecisely dated, and 16 declared future targets (a target never moves Now) · 280 located (1 of them withheld pending verification), 865 unlocated

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Austronesian

Connections · 3 of 4

The places on Earth

In focus · 19

Outside the current lens or window · 223