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An Essay on Afro-Indonesian Population Development Prior to the Twentieth Century

Authors: William John Page

The study includes a multi-discipline analysis to identify the main process through which Afro-Indonesians became established on Madagascar within the first Millennium.The conclusion proposes an extended and extensive exploration of the great rivers of Mocambique by Paleo-Indonesian expeditions. They bartered their Asian food plants grown on homes set up on islands or riverside settlements with aquatic Bantu on periodic expeditions. This process left trace patterns reflecting: 1. the Paleo-Indonesian river trade and, 2. dispersion of these crops by the Bantu agriculturalists and led to the formation of Afro-Indonesians ancestral to the Sakalava and Vezo people of western Madagascar. This paper was prepared from 1980 to 1990 and donated to the Mitchell Library in Sydney, Australia.

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