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Lakaton'i Anja A rock shelter near Antsiranana with tiny stone tools in layers dated by luminescence to about 4,400 to 3,500 years ago, while charcoal, pottery, and a bead in the same sands are much younger. -
Christmas River Elephant-bird bones with cut marks, directly dated to more than 10,500 years ago, set against a case that people did not settle Madagascar until the mid-first millennium CE. The Vazimba are the highland name for whoever came first.
Considered, and not given a room
A room is for a place with a real open question and enough published evidence to weigh both sides. These were looked at and left as notes, so they are not invisible.
- Highland tombs still called Vazimba are a living respect for earlier people, and they are not dated to the elephant-bird bone at Christmas River. Treating every “first people” as one people is the step the room refuses. The 1913 skeleton in that room is a stand-in for the species.