Explore the Malagasy genotype and its relation to the Merina ethnic group, revealing insights into African ancestry and Asian connections. The African ancestry of this individual is not exotic at all, ...

The sacred ritual occurs every five to seven years and is known as Famidihana or 'the turning of the bones' The remains are then returned to the tombs upside down to close the cycle of life and death ...

After prising open the entrances to their magnificent stone-walled tombs, they remove the bodies of their loved ones and wrap them in a fresh burial shroud in a ritual called the Famadihana – the ...

A paper focusing on some of the roles that landscape played in the historical development in the early 19th century of the Merina kingdom. The transformation of the Madagascar highlands landscape was ...