A new interpretation of Madagascar's megafaunal decline: The “Subsistence Shift Hypothesis”

2019/03/29 by Laurie R. Godfrey, Nick Scroxton, Brooke E. Crowley +7 · 5 citations
Psychology · Social Sciences · #Anthropological Studies and Insights #Global Maritime and Colonial Histories #Primate Behavior and Ecology

paper · doi:10.1016/j.jhevol.2019.03.002

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• Pastoralists, Warriors and Colonists: The Archaeology of Southern Madagascar
• A chronology for late prehistoric Madagascar
• Sporormiella and the late Holocene extinctions in Madagascar
• Situating Madagascar: Indian Ocean dynamics and archaeological histories
• Ancient crops provide first archaeological signature of the westward Austronesian expansion

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• Cutmarked bone of drought-tolerant extinct megafauna deposited with traces of fire, human foraging, and introduced animals in SW Madagascar
• Late Holocene spread of pastoralism coincides with endemic megafaunal extinction on Madagascar
• Holocene extinction [wikipedia]