[SunkenCiv]

Thanks Blam.

Being in the jaws of a large hurricane is no excuse not to make GGG posts.

Not even an excuse to migrate to Madagascar, but get rowin'. :')

Archaeological evidence suggests that this settlement was as recent as 1500 years ago - about the time the Saxons invaded Britain.

That figures. The damned Saxons probably invaded Borneo, too, and the Borneans had to paddle out of there, winding up in Madagascar.

I know what your thinkin', I know what you're thinkin'...

Sundaland? If it ever happened, it was too long ago to account for this.

My wild guess is that it's somehow related to the Polynesian expansion. Another possibility is that centuries before that, perhaps during the heyday of Greece and Rome, a population was transplanted for commercial reasons, perhaps to the eastern coast of Egypt, in the same way that a Tamil population was brought there, or came over on its own. Later, say, in the 7th century, they fled the rise of Islam. Shows they've got sense.

The gorilla-sized lemur species (and some other large mammals) went extinct shortly after the arrival of ancestors of the current human population. I do find it odd that such a large island hadn't been settled before, but then, perhaps it had, and no one has dug deep enough yet to find it.

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[SunkenCiv]

Someone named Kurt Saxon has posted the entire text of this cheesy old garage sale paperback, from the 1950s, which nevertheless is based on actual records modern and ancient:

Those About To Die
Chapter XI
by Daniel P. Mannix

There were also man-sized apes called tityrus with round faces, reddish color and whiskers. Pictures of them appear on vases and they were apparently orangutans, imported from Indonesia. As far as I know, the Romans never exhibited gorillas although these biggest of all apes were known to the Phoenicians, who gave them their present name which means "hairy savage."

[blam]

"My wild guess is that it's somehow related to the Polynesian expansion. "

This is about the time of the Dark Ages. Remember Mike Baillie (and others) believe the Dark Ages was caused by the earth being hit by a comet/asteroid swarm. The Dark Ages were worldwide.