Image Credit: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Calabash#/media/File:Courge_encore_verte.jpg Calabash, A Discussion on Its Cognates Calabash, Lagenaria siceraria ， i s one of the crops which human beings have cultivated since very early times more than 5,000 years ago. The calabash has many uses. The young fruit is edible as a vegetable. The mature fruit, after drying, can be used as a container for water and other things. It's a perfect material for making various kind of musical instruments, including wind, string and percussion instruments. Calabash is one of the indispensable crops of the early people. Wherever they moved, human beings have always had brought calabash seeds with them, to plant in the new frontiers in which they have arrived. The distribution of calabash is just the same as human beings’, starting from Africa, Asia then to the Americas. It's an important linguistic technique to compare the cognates between d...

Image credit: Macadamer/Flickr The Concept of Taiwania Taiwania was the cradle of the Austronesian people.Its range had included Taiwan, the shores of East Asia, the Yangtze River Delta, the Ryukyu Islands, parts of Japan, the Korean Peninsula (out of whatever we can see today), and the Taiwan Strait, East China Sea, Japanese Sea (out of whatever is under the sea level at present). It’ was a large landmass before the end of the Ice Age 11,400 years ago. At both the Yangtze River Delta and the Ryukyu Islands there were archaeological evidences of human habitation from 15,000 years ago. Before the end of the Ice Age, Taiwania was a region with mild climate and suitable for human beings with prolific fauna and flora. The discoveries of the fossils of Bubalus teilhardi , Elaphurus davidianus , and Palaeoloxodon naumanni penghunensis at Penghu Trench have been dated by the National Museum of Natural Science of Taiwan to be between 40,000 and 10,000 years-old. The fauna ...