Early Holocene human presence in Madagascar evidenced by exploitation of avian megafauna
- Submitting institution
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Teesside University
- Unit of assessment
- 12 - Engineering
- Output identifier
- 5914964
- Type
- D - Journal article
- DOI
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10.1126/sciadv.aat6925
- Title of journal
- Science Advances
- Article number
- eaat6925
- First page
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- Volume
- 4
- Issue
- 9
- ISSN
- 2375-2548
- Open access status
- Compliant
- Month of publication
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- Year of publication
- 2018
- URL
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- Supplementary information
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- Request cross-referral to
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- Output has been delayed by COVID-19
- No
- COVID-19 affected output statement
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- Forensic science
- Yes
- Criminology
- No
- Interdisciplinary
- No
- Number of additional authors
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7
- Research group(s)
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- Proposed double-weighted
- No
- Reserve for an output with double weighting
- No
- Additional information
- This collaborative research fundamentally changed our understanding of human arrival and activity in Madagascar by showing definitively that humans had arrived on the island 6000 years earlier than previously thought. This forces a complete rethink of human migration to the island and therefore the history of Africa more broadly. Furthermore, we took methods from one discipline and applied it to the archaeological context in novel ways. This work was featured in a number of publications (including Newsweek, Der Spiegel and Forbes), and has been built on by researchers in a range of fields including geography, palaeoecology and history.
- Author contribution statement
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- Non-English
- No
- English abstract
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