1. Introduction Arrivals:
2. First foragers - archaeological evidence
3. Genetic evidence for human diversity across Madagascar
4. Linguistic evidence for Madagascar’s settlement history and material culture
5. Oral histories of Madagascar’s first settlers and later migrations
6. The view from the east African coast Living with Change:
7. Madagascar’s holocene environments - multiproxy evidence
8. Marine and coastal paleoclimate reconstructions
9. Remote sensing and Holocene coastal settlement
10. Early human-animal interactions
11. Madagascar’s Holocene grassy biomes
12. Perspectives on living with change past, present and future Indian Ocean Worlds:
13. Madagascar in the Indian Ocean: an overview
14. Madagascar and the Comoros
15. Urbanism in Madagascar: Mahilaka and other trading towns
16. Vohemar, trading city and cemetery
17. Arabico-Malagasy sacred texts: the sorabe
18. Archaeology of the Onjatsy
19. Islam and traders in Western Madagascar
20. Perspectives on Madagascar and the Swahili world Circulations: Malagasy Foodways
21. Faunal introductions to Madagascar in regional and international context
22. Introduced plants and their Indian Ocean histories
23. Cattle histories (with a focus on the south)
24. Changing relationships to land and sea in Madagascar’s coastal communities
25. Rice and water management histories in highland Madagascar
26. Archaeoethnological survey of land use in a Betsileo commune
27. Vanilla and its histories
28. Swahili foodways: a comparison Circulations: Malagasy material culture and its networks:
29. Shell beads
30. Glass beads
31. Chinese and South East Asian ceramics in the Southwest Indian Ocean
32. Lathe-turned softstone (“chlorite-schist”) vessels
33. Metals and iron working in Madagascar
34. Textile histories
35. Traditional musical instruments of Madagascar
36. Funerary monuments across Madagascar Power, authority and place-making:
37. The emergence of complex political formations: an overview 38, Andrianampoinimerina and his works
39. Betsileo kingdoms ? Manandriana case study
40. Oral histories of the Northern Sakalava
41. The Sakalava of the West
42. Politics in the history and archaeology of the northeast
43. The archaeology of the Androy
44. Madagascar’s rock art
45. Heritage and history in Madagascar
46. Perspectives on Place-making in Madagascar Enslavement, encounters and global circulations since the 16th century:
47. The archaeology of the south and early European incursions
48. The archaeological evidence for Robert Drury’s account
49. The Serapis Project and shipwreck archaeology in Madagascar
50. Madagascar’s involvement in the trade in enslaved people
51. The Malagasy slaves wrecked on Tromelin
53. Negative/colonial heritage in Mahajanga
54. Legacies of slavery in Madagascar