Austronesians The Seafaring Ancestors of Filipinos!
But the negritos weren't the only people to shape the Filipino genetic identity. Around 4,000 years ago, a new wave of migrants arrived, the Austronesians. These skilled seafares originated from Taiwan and spread across the Pacific and Indian Oceans, settling in places like the Philippines, Indonesia. So that tells you that a lot of these countries like Taiwan, Philippines, all the stuff, they've been going around the world before Christopher Columbus. Chris Columbus say like saying that he marked the world and everything. But I'm trying to think like, yo, there, there been people migrating way before that, bro, Asia and Polynesia. They brought with them advanced knowledge of farming, pottery and boat building, which helped establish more complex organised communities. Genetic studies revealed that modern Filipinos are primarily a mix of Negrito and Austronesian ancestry with the latter being the dominant component. But what's truly fascinating is how this genetic blending happened.
