The Wikipedia article for Madagascar says that the original settlers of the island came from Borneo. The distance between these two places is immense - how did the settlers manage to sail so far to Madagascar in particular? What material records or oral histories tie these two islands together?

by Philitian

I reference this section of the wiki: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Madagascar#History

I am well aware that the statement "Early settlers arrived in outrigger canoes from southern Borneo" is likely highly simplified. This group of navigators likely had many intermediate locations they traveled to prior to reaching Madagascar, and there's likely a material trace of this somewhere in the archaeological record. What are the details surrounding this connection?

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