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Madagascar rooms

• 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.