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   Remains of rice and mung beans help solve a Madagascan mystery   
      
   My comment:   
      
   The expansion of Austronesians into Madagascar more than   
   1000 years ago points to the possibility of interaction   
   with India in ancient times by maritime people from the   
   Far East. I have posited a hypothesis of a Maritime Tin   
   Route which linked the largest tin belt of the globe   
   (Mekong delta) with the Bronze Age in ancient India and   
   Ancient Near East. This hypothesis is consistent with a   
   view that Austroasiatic languages evolved from Munda in   
   ancient India.   
      
   - S. Kalyanaraman   
      
   Rice remains show when Southeast Asians colonised Madagascar   
      
   May 31, 2016, 03.27 PM IST London, May 31 (IANS) Ancient   
   remains of Asian species like rice and mung beans from   
   excavated sites in Madagascar point to the first   
   archaeological evidence that settlers from Southeast Asia   
   might have colonised the island a thousand years ago,   
   says a study.   
      
   The findings help solve one of the enduring mysteries of   
   the ancient world -- why the inhabitants of Madagascar   
   speak Malagasy, a language otherwise unique to Southeast   
   Asia and the Pacific -- a region located at least 6,000   
   km away, the researchers said.   
      
   "Southeast Asians clearly brought crops from their   
   homeland and grew and subsisted on them when they reached   
   Africa ," said Senior Author Nicole Boivin from School of   
   Archaeology at University of Oxford.   
      
   The findings were published in the journal Proceedings of   
   the National Academy of Sciences. . . .   
      
   Continues at:   
      
   http://bharatkalyan97.blogspot.com/2016/05/remains-of-rice-and-m   
   ng-beans-help.html   
      
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