The culture history of Madagascar
dc.contributor.author | Dewar, Robert E. | en_US |
dc.contributor.author | Wright, Henry T. | en_US |
dc.date.accessioned | 2006-09-11T15:51:17Z | |
dc.date.available | 2006-09-11T15:51:17Z | |
dc.date.issued | 1993-12 | en_US |
dc.identifier.citation | Dewar, Robert E.; Wright, Henry T.; (1993). "The culture history of Madagascar." Journal of World Prehistory 7(4): 417-466. <http://hdl.handle.net/2027.42/45256> | en_US |
dc.identifier.issn | 1573-7802 | en_US |
dc.identifier.issn | 0892-7537 | en_US |
dc.identifier.uri | https://hdl.handle.net/2027.42/45256 | |
dc.description.abstract | Madagascar's culture is a unique fusion of elements drawn from the western, northern, and eastern shores of the Indian Ocean, and its past has fascinated many scholars, yet systematic archaeological research is relatively recent on the island. The oldest traces of visitors are from the first century AD. Coastal settlements, with clear evidence of ties to the western Indian Ocean trading network, were established in several places over the next millennium. Important environmental changes of both plant and animal communities are documented over this period, including the extinctions of almost all large animal species. Urban life in Madagascar began with the establishment of the entrepôt of Mahilaka on the northwest coast of the island in the twelfth century. At about the same time, communities with ties to the trade network were established around the island's coasts. From the fourteenth to the sixteenth century, social hierarchies developed in several regions of the island. During the succeeding two centuries, Madagascar saw the development of state polities. | en_US |
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dc.format.mimetype | application/pdf | |
dc.format.mimetype | text/plain | |
dc.language.iso | en_US | |
dc.publisher | Kluwer Academic Publishers-Plenum Publishers; Plenum Publishing Corporation ; Springer Science+Business Media | en_US |
dc.subject.other | Social Sciences, General | en_US |
dc.subject.other | Anthropology/Archaeometry | en_US |
dc.subject.other | Madagascar | en_US |
dc.subject.other | Prehistory | en_US |
dc.subject.other | East Africa | en_US |
dc.subject.other | Archaeology | en_US |
dc.subject.other | Indian Ocean | en_US |
dc.title | The culture history of Madagascar | en_US |
dc.type | Article | en_US |
dc.subject.hlbsecondlevel | Anthropology and Archaeology | en_US |
dc.subject.hlbtoplevel | Social Sciences | en_US |
dc.description.peerreviewed | Peer Reviewed | en_US |
dc.contributor.affiliationum | Museum of Anthropology, University of Michigan, 48109-1079, Ann Arbor, Michigan | en_US |
dc.contributor.affiliationother | Department of Anthropology, University of Connecticut, 06269, Storrs, Connecticut | en_US |
dc.contributor.affiliationumcampus | Ann Arbor | en_US |
dc.description.bitstreamurl | http://deepblue.lib.umich.edu/bitstream/2027.42/45256/1/10963_2004_Article_BF00997802.pdf | en_US |
dc.identifier.doi | http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/BF00997802 | en_US |
dc.identifier.source | Journal of World Prehistory | en_US |
dc.owningcollname | Interdisciplinary and Peer-Reviewed |
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