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Early Holocene human presence in Madagascar evidenced by exploitation of avian megafauna.
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- Late Holocene spread of pastoralism coincides with endemic megafaunal extinction on Madagascar.Proceedings. Biological sciences · 2021Article
- Collagen fingerprinting traces the introduction of caprines to island Eastern Africa.Royal Society open science · 2021Article
- Paleogenomics illuminates the evolutionary history of the extinct Holocene "horned" crocodile of Madagascar, Voay robustus.Communications biology · 2021Article
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Abstract
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
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