Table of Contents:
  • 1. Introduction
  • 2. Landscape and archaeology in western Avaradrano
  • 3. Ceramics and cultural phases in central Imerina
  • 4. The ancient settlements of Avaradrano
  • 5. The development of settlement systems in western Avaradrano
  • 6. Comments
  • Appendix: A. Catalogue of site information ; B. Determinations of absolute dates from archaeological sites in central Madagascar ; C. Contribution to the paleoethnobotany of the central highlands Madagascar ; D. Population and production in eighteenth-century Madagascar: analyzing archaeological evidence of the subsistence economy of the central highlands ; E. Ambohimanga: creating a capital and a polity in thought, deed and dirt.