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Si Mateneng - Tao People - Taiwan

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In recent years more and more researchers, such as anthropologists, archaeologists, botanists, botanists, biologists, and linguists maintain that Taiwan is the origin of the Austronesians. The 2021 Taiwan CIP, Council of Indigenous People, published The Origins of Austronesians. This book includes many pieces of evidence which help us to know how such different fields came to the same answer. The easiest way to explain this is that such a small island had historical traces of more than 22 different tribes. However, only 16 have been officially certified. Taiwan is still working towards the revitalization of some indigenous communities which haven’t been recognized, because indigenous cultures are so important and are just gaining attention from the United Nations. Indigenous cultures not only reveal the connections between humans and land but also show the diversity of the world. Culture can affect people’s concepts. Levi-Strauss an anthropologist instructs that scientific explanation