East Africa and Madagascar in the Indian ocean world

N Boivin, A Crowther, R Helm, DQ Fuller - Journal of world prehistory, 2013 - Springer
Abstract The Indian Ocean has long been a forum for contact, trade and the transfer of
goods, technologies and ideas between geographically distant groups of people. Another …

[图书][B] Extinct Madagascar: picturing the island's past

SM Goodman, WL Jungers - 2014 - degruyter.com
The landscapes of Madagascar have long delighted zoologists, who have discovered, in
and among the island's baobab trees and thickets, a dizzying array of animals, including …

Natural selection for the Duffy-null allele in the recently admixed people of Madagascar

JA Hodgson, JK Pickrell… - … of the Royal …, 2014 - royalsocietypublishing.org
While gene flow between distantly related populations is increasingly recognized as a
potentially important source of adaptive genetic variation for humans, fully characterized …

[图书][B] Early exchange between Africa and the wider indian ocean world

G Campbell - 2016 - Springer
This is the first scholarly series devoted to the study of the Indian Ocean world from early
times to the present day. Encouraging interdisciplinarity, it incorporates and contributes to …

East Africa in the early Indian Ocean world slave trade: The Zanj revolt reconsidered

G Campbell - Early exchange between Africa and the wider Indian …, 2016 - Springer
Slavery studies have focused overwhelmingly on the Atlantic slave trade (Miller 1999)
wherein between circa 1500 and 1880 some 12.5 million sub-Saharans, mostly young adult …

Human translocation as an alternative hypothesis to explain the presence of giant tortoises on remote islands in the south‐western Indian Ocean

L Wilmé, PO Waeber, JU Ganzhorn - Journal of Biogeography, 2017 - Wiley Online Library
Giant tortoises are known from several remote islands in the Indian Ocean (IO). Our present
understanding of ocean circulation patterns, the age of the islands, and the life history traits …

Early human colonization, climate change and megafaunal extinction in Madagascar: the contribution of genetics in a framework of reciprocal causations

S Tofanelli, S Bertoncini, G Donati - Frontiers in Ecology and …, 2022 - frontiersin.org
The relative importance of climate shifts and human activities on Madagascar's Holocene
ecological transitions is highly contentious. Increasing evidence supports a scenario of …

A Genomic Investigation of the Malagasy Confirms the Highland–Coastal Divide, and the Lack of Middle Eastern Gene Flow

JA Hodgson - Early Exchange between Africa and the Wider Indian …, 2016 - Springer
The island of Madagascar is among the last of the major landmasses to have been
populated by humans, yet this colonization remains one of the least well understood …

[PDF][PDF] Natural selection for the Duffy-null allele in the recently

HS Rocha, MD Shriver, GH Perry - 2014 - academia.edu
While gene flow between distantly related populations is increasingly recognized as a
potentially important source of adaptive genetic variation for humans, fully characterized …