Madagascar (Subscribe)
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Studies Prove People of Madagascar Came from Borneo and Africa
http://news.mongabay.com/2005/0708-wildmadagascar.html
Research report that Malagasy people of Madagascar carry genes from ancestors in both nearby East Africa and far away Borneo suggesting there was a big migration from Asia back to Africa.
Shipwreck Adventurer's Fiction Revealed as True After 270 Years
http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2002/oct/13/research.books
An eighteenth-century adventure story involving slavery on a desert island, violent death and escape became the literary sensation of its day and has been pronounced by experts since as exciting stuff but utter fiction.
Royal Hill of Ambohimanga
http://whc.unesco.org/en/list/950
UNESCO World Heritage site. Includes photographs, maps, a description of the site and a statement of significance.
Fieldwork in Madagascar
http://www.shef.ac.uk/archaeology/research/madagascar
Short article with images of the archaeological fieldword carried out by Mike Parker Pearson.