who were the first settlers?
Pleistocene fossils of "Homo erectus" and other pre-"H. sapiens" homonin fossils, similar to "H. heidelbergensis" in Europe, have been found in India
Indian Ocean
Pleistocene fossils of "Homo erectus" and other pre-"H. sapiens" homonin fossils, similar to "H. heidelbergensis" in Europe, have been found in India. According to the Toba catastrophe theory, a supereruption c. 74000 years ago at Lake Toba, Sumatra, covered India with volcanic ashes and wiped out one or more lineages of such archaic humans in India and Southeast Asia.
where did the dodo bird live before it was extinct Island of Mauritius, east of Madagascar in the Indian Ocean who discovered it? UNANSWERABLE who described it? Danish zoologist Johannes Theodor Reinhardt how did it get its name? One of the original names for the dodo was the Dutch ""Walghvoghel"", first used in the journal of Dutch Vice Admiral Wybrand van Warwijck, the etymology of the word "dodo" is unclear. Some ascribe it to the Dutch word "dodoor" for "sluggard", but it is more probably related to "Dodaars", which means either "fat-arse" or "knot-arse", referring to the knot of feathers on the hind end what does it feed on? Nuts, seeds, bulbs, roots, it has also been suggested that the dodo might have eaten crabs and shellfish, like their relatives the crowned pigeons how was its relationship with humans? An illustration made for the 1648 published version of the journal,  showing the killing of dodos, a dugong, and possibly Mascarene grey parakeets, was captioned with a Dutch poem where did the ocean mentioned above located? Indian Ocean is the third-largest of the world's oceanic divisions, it  is bounded by Asia to the north, Africa to the west and Australia to the east. To the south it is bounded by the Southern Ocean or Antarctica, depending on the definition in use. Along its core, the Indian Ocean has some large marginal or regional seas such as the Arabian Sea, the Laccadive Sea, the Somali Sea, Bay of Bengal, and the Andaman Sea
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Indian Ocean [SEP] First settlements
Pleistocene fossils of "Homo erectus" and other pre-"H. sapiens" homonin fossils, similar to "H. heidelbergensis" in Europe, have been found in India. According to the Toba catastrophe theory, a supereruption c. 74000 years ago at Lake Toba, Sumatra, covered India with volcanic ashes and wiped out one or more lineages of such archaic humans in India and Southeast Asia. The "Out of Africa" theory states that "Homo sapiens" spread from Africa into mainland Eurasia. The more recent "Southern Dispersal" or "Coastal hypothesis" instead advocates that modern humans spread along the coasts of the Arabic Peninsula and southern Asia. This hypothesis is supported by mtDNA research which reveals a rapid dispersal event during the Late Pleistocene (11,000 years ago).