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Madagascar should be related to India, though. Separated 80mil years ago, if I remember correctly.
by rusanu 10y ago
Madagascar should be related to India, though. Separated 80mil years ago, if I remember correctly.
- ptaipale 10y agoAll continents have shifted in that timescale. Perhaps more relevant is the connection to Austronesia: the first human settlers arrived in Madagascar about 2000-2500 years ago on outrigger canoes from Borneo. Bantu people came later, around 1000 AD, so they are "colonists" somewhat in the same way as Europeans are in America, although they mixed with rather than replaced the Austronesian "first nations".