The timing of the human settlement of Madagascar, one of the last large landmasses to be
settled by people, remains a key topic of debate in archaeology. Despite decades of …

Fundamental disagreements remain regarding the relative importance of climate change
and human activities as triggers for Madagascar's Holocene megafaunal extinction. We use …

Although situated∼ 400 km from the east coast of Africa, Madagascar exhibits cultural,
linguistic, and genetic traits from both Southeast Asia and Eastern Africa. The settlement …

The estimated period in which human colonization of Madagascar began has expanded
recently to 5000–1000 y BP, six times its range in 1990, prompting revised thinking about …

Madagascar poses a significant challenge for understanding how people colonized islands.
While its inhabitants also share an African ancestry, language, genetics, and culture all point …

African Islands provides the first geographically and chronologically comprehensive
overview of the archaeology of African islands. This book draws archaeologically informed …

Madagascar is a place of change. A biodiversity hotspot and the fourth largest island on the
planet, it has been home to a spectacular parade of animals, from giant flightless birds and …

In recent decades, the vast and culturally diverse Indian Ocean region has increasingly
attracted the attention of anthropologists, historians, political scientists, sociologists, and …

This paper is a cross-comparative examination of how tropical forested islands were
populated by humans. It first describes the unique ecological conditions of these …

Research aims and rationale The sheer rock cliffs of the Mount Lico inselberg, northern
Mozambique, is relatively inaccessible to people. A 0.57 km2 forest covers the top of the …