Human presence in Madagascar...>10,000ya

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quote from Egyptsearch:

Early Holocene human presence in Madagascar evidenced by exploitation of avian megafauna

James Hansford1,2,*, Patricia C. Wright3,4, Armand Rasoamiaramanana5, Ventura R. Pérez6, Laurie R. Godfrey6, David Errickso

quote:
Previous research suggests that people first arrived on Madagascar by ~2500 years before present (years B.P.). This hypothesis is consistent with butchery marks on extinct lemur bones from ~2400 years B.P. and perhaps with archaeological evidence of human presence from ~4000 years B.P. We report >10,500-year-old human-modified bones for the extinct elephant birds Aepyornis and Mullerornis, which show perimortem chop marks, cut marks, and depression fractures consistent with immobilization and dismemberment. Our evidence for anthropogenic perimortem modification of directly dated bones represents the earliest indication of humans in Madagascar, predating all other archaeological and genetic evidence by >6000 years and changing our understanding of the history of human colonization of Madagascar. This revision of Madagascar’s prehistory suggests prolonged human-faunal coexistence with limited biodiversity loss.


advances.sciencemag.org/content/4/9/eaat6925

Can we get a moment of silence for Xyyman
...he might've called this.

More evidence for long term settlement by Africans prior to the arrival of Austronesians.

www.egyptsearch.com/forums/ultimatebb.cgi?ubb=get_topic;f=8;t=010040

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No ElMaestro. not "before" the arrival of Austronesians. The aDNA will show (when discovered) "Austronesians" were present in Madagascar 10,000 years!!!

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Even with the "selective" release of aDNA and the dis-honest manipulation of genomes the pattern is clear to see. They can make up all the nonsensical BS story about Austronesian women loaded up their boats and headed 2000miles across open ocean to Africa. It never happened!!! Austronesians in Madagascar are remnants of Africans consistent with a earl Holocene OOA. The is why the haplotypes of yDNA O found in current population in Islands off East Africa are NOT a subset of those further East across the Indian Ocean.

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Honest…I did not write this….He! He! He!
These white people are getting crazier by the minute.


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Journal Article


A small cohort of Island Southeast Asian women founded Madagascar

Murray P. Cox, Michael G. Nelson, Meryanne K. Tumonggor, François-X. Ricaut, Herawati Sudoyo

Proceedings: Biological Sciences, Vol. 279, No. 1739 (22 July 2012), pp. 2761-2768


Abstract

The settlement of Madagascar is one of the most unusual, and least understood, episodes in human prehistory. Madagascar was one of the last landmasses to be reached by people, and despite the island's location just off the east coast of Africa, evidence from genetics, language and culture all attests that it was settled jointly by Africans, and more surprisingly, Indonesians. Nevertheless, extremely little is known about the settlement process itself. Here, we report broad geographical screening of Malagasy and Indonesian genetic variation, from which we infer a statistically robust coalescent model of the island's initial settlement. Maximum-likelihood estimates favour a scenario in which Madagascar was settled approximately 1200 years ago by a very small group of women (approx. 30), most of Indonesian descent (approx. 93%). This highly restricted founding population raises the possibility that Madagascar was settled not as a large-scale planned colonization event from Indonesia, but rather through a small, perhaps even unintended, transoceanic crossing.

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More evidence of ancient African/Asian OOA


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Alu elements within the human major histocompatibility class I region in the Comoros Islands: Genetic variation and population relationships
Said Nassor Abeid, Majida Motrane, Hamid Farhane

Abstract
Background: Alu elements are attractive markers for population genetics, disease, forensics and paternity analyses due to their particular characteristics. Five polymorphic Alu insertions within the MHC class I region have been little examined in human populations.

Aim: The analysis of the genetic diversity of autochthonous Comorians from the three major islands of the archipelago by these polymorphic MHC Alus and to assess their relationships together and with other populations.

Subjects and methods: 257 unrelated participants from Comoros archipelago: Grande Comore (86), Anjouan (93) and Moheli (78), were examined for five MHC Alu insertions. The data were analysed for intra and inter- population genetic variation.

Results: All MHC Alu were polymorphic in the three samples and only one significant differentiation was observed between Anjouan and Moheli. According to the MDS and AMOVA results, the populations included in the inter-population analyses were grouped in three major clusters according to their genetic ancestry. The haplotype diversity showed by the Comorians is higher than in previously studied African populations and occupies an intermediate position between African and Asian clusters.

Conclusion: MHC Alu insertions are useful markers to study micro-geographical genetic variations. Using these polymorphisms, new insights have been obtained about the biological history and evolution of the Comoros.

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Collective and single burial in Madagascar
Mike Parker Pearson, Denis Regnier 2019


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quote:
"The view that the Austronesian-derived Malagasy brought collective burial with their
migration from South-East Asia – anthropologically hypothesised rather than archaeologically demonstrated –
has led scholars to infer that this practice was always present and dominant in highland Madagascar (Metcalf &
Huntington 1991: 108-109)."





reading this paper it seems Madagascar is filled with stone tombs just as N. East African and parts of Southern East African

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