Welcome to Lemurtown - Ep 139

Listeners, once again, life has come at us like a poorly written simile, so we're releasing a previous Patreon episode. And once again, we are so deeply grateful for your patience and support. Thank you for sticking with us. As an extension of March Madagascarness, we head back to the island with our (ill-fitting) primatology hats on. Anna put together a fun script about giant extinct lemurs, tiny not-extinct lemurs, and even creepy aye-aye fingers, but somehow Amber managed to have a full on meltdown about a lemur named Maki.

Links

• Graveyard of Giant Lemurs Discovered Underwater in Madagascar (National Geographic)

• Human population boom led to Madagascar’s megafauna extinction: Study (Mongabay)

• A new interpretation of Madagascar's megafaunal decline: The “Subsistence Shift Hypothesis” (Journal of Human Evolution)

• The Aye-Aye and the Finger of Death (Pacific Standard)

• Scientists Discover New Species of Mouse Lemur (SciNews)

• Lemur Missing, Possibly Stolen, From San Francisco Zoo (NPR)

• ‘There’s a lemur!’ 5-year-old helps crack SF Zoo theft case (AP)

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March Madagascarness - Ep 128

This week, Anna and Amber journey to the island of Madagascar. Yeah, sure, there were once man-sized lemurs there, but we’re talking about the people of Madagascar, how and when they arrived on the island, their history, archaeology, and more! Plus, Anna discovers that maps are super useful.

Links

• Malagasy? Or is it Madagascan? Our research provides the answer (The Conversation)

• Indian Ocean: Five Island Countries (Library of Congress)

• Madagascar: Precolonial Era, Prior to 1894 (via the Wayback Machine)

• Researchers confirm timeline of human presence on Madagascar (Phys.org)

• Ancient Madagascar Shows Humans Make New Places Suit Them (Futurity)

• Genomic landscape of human diversity across Madagascar (PNAS)

• What are single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs)? (MedlinePlus)

• Ancient rice 'first evidence' Madagascan ancestors crossed Indian Ocean from South-East Asia (ABC)

• Ancient crops provide first archaeological signature of the westward Austronesian expansion (PNAS)

  The culture history of Madagascar (Journal of World Prehistory)

• Chapter 15 - The Austronesian Expansion and the First Malagasy Cultures (The Worlds of the Indian Ocean)

• Time and the ancestors: Landscape survey in the Andrantsay region of Madagascar (Antiquity, via ResearchGate)

• Toward a just and inclusive environmental archaeology of southwest Madagascar (Journal of Social Archaeology, via ResarchGate)

• Madagascar / The Great Island: Contemporary Artists from Madagascar (Google Arts + Culture)

• Madagascar of to-day (Internet Archive)

• Situating Madagascar: Indian Ocean dynamics and archaeological histories (Azania: Archaeological Research in Africa, via ResearchGate)

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