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March Madagascarness - Ep 128

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This week, Anna and Amber journey to the island of Madagascar. Yeah, sure, there were once man-sized lemurs there, but we’re talking about the people of Madagascar, how and when they arrived on the island, their history, archaeology, and more! Plus, Anna discovers that maps are super useful.

Links

  • Malagasy? Or is it Madagascan? Our research provides the answer (The Conversation)
  • Indian Ocean: Five Island Countries (Library of Congress)
  • Madagascar: Precolonial Era, Prior to 1894 (via the Wayback Machine)
  • Researchers confirm timeline of human presence on Madagascar (Phys.org)
  • Ancient Madagascar Shows Humans Make New Places Suit Them (Futurity)
  • Genomic landscape of human diversity across Madagascar (PNAS)
  • What are single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs)? (MedlinePlus)
  • Ancient rice 'first evidence' Madagascan ancestors crossed Indian Ocean from South-East Asia (ABC)
  • Ancient crops provide first archaeological signature of the westward Austronesian expansion (PNAS)
  • The culture history of Madagascar (Journal of World Prehistory)
  • Chapter 15 - The Austronesian Expansion and the First Malagasy Cultures (The Worlds of the Indian Ocean)
  • Time and the ancestors: Landscape survey in the Andrantsay region of Madagascar (Antiquity, via ResearchGate)
  • Toward a just and inclusive environmental archaeology of southwest Madagascar (Journal of Social Archaeology, via ResarchGate)
  • Madagascar / The Great Island: Contemporary Artists from Madagascar (Google Arts + Culture)
  • Madagascar of to-day (Internet Archive)
  • Situating Madagascar: Indian Ocean dynamics and archaeological histories (Azania: Archaeological Research in Africa, via ResearchGate)

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