Humans Were in Madagascar 6,000 Years Earlier than Thought, Butchered Bones Suggest (1 of 8) (IMAGE)
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Illustration of a Vorompatra (Elephant bird) skeleton. This material relates to a paper that appeared in the Sep. 12th 2018, issue of Science Advances, published by AAAS. The paper, by J. Hansford at Institute of Zoology, Zoological Society of London in London, UK, and colleagues was titled, "Early Holocene human presence in Madagascar evidenced by exploitation of avian megafauna."
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[Credit: Alain Rasolo, Wildlife Artist, Madagascar]
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