The debate on the peopling of Madagascar has long been dominated by historical
linguistics and the observed similarities between Malagasy and Austronesian languages. It …

This article reviews and contrasts research findings in a variety of disciplines seeking
corroboration for theories of settlement in Madagascar. Evidence is considered from the …

The island of Madagascar split from the African mainland some 50 million years ago,
considerably prior to the evolution of humans and indeed primates. Its isolation permitted the …

The Austronesians who settled in Madagascar in the first millennium of the Christian Era
were probably different from the Austronesians who reached the East African coast earlier at …

It has long been accepted that the core population contributing to the Malagasy language
are the Barito, an inland people of SE Kalimantan, and that a superstrate of Malay nautical …

The origin of the Malagasy population has been a subject of speculation since the 16th
century. Contributions of African, Asian, Indian, Melanesian, Arabic and Persian populations …

The history of contacts between East Africa and island South East Asia (henceforth ISEA) is
a long one. Based on current research, this history is punctuated by at least three important …

In the first issue of Azania Pierre Vérin outlined the state of research in Madagascar in 1966.
He described three key areas: the nature and origin of human settlement, the influence of …

All results in this paper are based upon a new dataset consisting in 60 Swadesh lists of 207
items, overall 12,420 terms collected during 2018-2019. Each list corresponds to a different …

The Austronesian expansion, one of the last major human migrations, influenced regions as
distant as tropical Asia, Remote Oceania and Madagascar, off the east coast of Africa. The …