Proto Oceanic (Austronesian) and Proto East Bantu (Niger-Congo) kin terms ca. 1000 BC Universiteit Gent
Proto Oceanic society (ca. 1000 BC} and Proto East Bantu society (ca. 500 BC) were expanding farming societies and are here held to have been matrilineal, matrilocal societies with bifurcate merging kin term systems. MatrilinealityU+2019s motive in both instances is held to be the matrilocal response to migration and migrationU+2019s warfare described by Divale with, in the instance of Proto Oceanic society, an additional association of ...