{"id":2666,"date":"2013-12-12T15:39:10","date_gmt":"2013-12-12T14:39:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bodhicharya.org\/manyroads\/?p=2666"},"modified":"2013-12-13T10:00:07","modified_gmt":"2013-12-13T09:00:07","slug":"nosy-mangabe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bodhicharya.org\/manyroads\/nosy-mangabe\/","title":{"rendered":"NOSY MANGABE"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/d2wipdjmobk1g8.cloudfront.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2013\/12\/22152619\/nosy-mugabe.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-2704\" alt=\"nosy mugabe\" src=\"https:\/\/d2wipdjmobk1g8.cloudfront.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2013\/12\/22152619\/nosy-mugabe.jpg\" width=\"267\" height=\"189\" \/><\/a><span style=\"font-size: medium\">Who would have thought that in the seventeenth century, on a tiny island in the <a title=\"Antongil\" href=\"http:\/\/www.wcs.org\/saving-wild-places\/ocean\/antongil-bay-seascape.aspx\">Bay of Antongil<\/a> in the north east of Madagascar Dutch sailors would be carving the rocks and leaving long detailed messages for one another.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 The\u2019 post office\u2019 at Nosy Mangabe is on the tourist trail, but it is also a site of great archaeological and historical interest.\u00a0 Sites like this with remaining evidence of human presence give\u00a0 insight into the ways that remote areas were used; as refuges from the wild winds and storms of the monsoons along the African coast; as resting places; as repair yards; and as nodes of communication between sailors mostly plying the trade routes to southern Asia.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: medium\"><!--more-->With Dr Wendy van Duivenvoorde and Mark Polzer, maritime archaeologists at Flinders University in Adelaide, South Australia (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.flinders.edu.au\/\">www.flinders.edu.au<\/a>) I went to Nosy Mangabe in 2012 to record the remaining inscriptions, as part of a wider project\u00a0 investigating \u00a0<i>Southeast Asia&#8217;s global economy, climate and the impact of natural hazards from the 10th to 21st centuries<\/i>\u00a0 (<a href=\"http:\/\/indianoceanworldcentre.com\/news03\">http:\/\/indianoceanworldcentre.com\/news03<\/a> ).\u00a0 As a largely terrestrial archaeologist specialising in rock art my role was to systematically record the remaining inscriptions on the rocks, which we would later use to discuss the extent to which this site was a communication node for sailors, and its role in the wider trade network in terms of the challenges that the ships faced with both climatic and natural hazards\u2019 along the African coast as they developed the trade routes and economic infrastructure in southern Asia.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: medium\">It was a great adventure for all of us.\u00a0 Leaving from Perth, Western Australia, an eight hour flight took us to Mauritius, then another hour to Madgascar\u2019s capital, Antananarivo, popularly called Tana by the locals.\u00a0 After a couple of days in the smoke filled haze we took a flight to the north to Maroansetra, on the edge of a large national park.\u00a0 In Madagascar it rains two thirds of the year, and while we were in the north east it rained every day, \u00a0and getting to the island in a small dingy every day was an adventure in itself.\u00a0 Recording the inscriptions challenging, with the rain and poor light making photography difficult; keeping our equipment in good condition was an ongoing concern.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: medium\">The last study of the inscriptions had been in the 1920s by the French Colonial Adjunct ME Drouhard, who had documented twelve inscriptions.\u00a0 Drouhard had picked out the inscriptions with white paint on the rocks, but luckily the paint had long gone by the time we visited in 2012.\u00a0 We were delighted to record more than forty inscriptions, ranging from simple light incisions of names, to deep and still very clear details of ships with dates of arrival and departure.\u00a0 The earliest inscription that we were able to date is 1601, and the most recent 1657.\u00a0 The 1601 inscription is important as it was before the founding of the Dutch East India Company and archival records have confirmed that this inscription was carved by the crew of the fifth expedition to the East Indies by the Dutch; so it was early in the opening of the Dutch trade routes in the region.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: medium\">Reports and journal articles are in preparation at the moment, but you can see a short article in the Engage Magazine by Flinders University, two of the inscriptions mentioned in a new article in the current edition of Australian Archaeology (find out more at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.australianarchaeologicalassociation.com.au\/\">http:\/\/www.australianarchaeologicalassociation.com.au\/<\/a>) and look at many of the images on Flickr <a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/wvduivenvoorde\/sets\/72157629915952199\/\">http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/wvduivenvoorde\/sets\/72157629915952199\/<\/a>.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/d2wipdjmobk1g8.cloudfront.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2013\/12\/22152618\/jane.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-2706\" alt=\"jane\" src=\"https:\/\/d2wipdjmobk1g8.cloudfront.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2013\/12\/22152618\/jane-300x214.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"214\" srcset=\"https:\/\/d2wipdjmobk1g8.cloudfront.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2013\/12\/22152618\/jane-300x214.jpg 300w, https:\/\/d2wipdjmobk1g8.cloudfront.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2013\/12\/22152618\/jane.jpg 560w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left\"><span style=\"font-size: small;color: #333399\">Jane Fyfe is an archaeologist in Western Australia, currently researching the relationship between rock art and identity in the sub \u00a0tropical southern Kimberley region of that vast land. Her work finds her doing a wide variety of investigations from excavating a church residence yard in the centre of the city to find the ruins of Western Australia&#8217;s first gaol, to a tiny island off Madagascar to record the remains of a four hundred year old Dutch stopping point as trade routes developed to Asia and the Pacific.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #333399\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><span style=\"font-size: small\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\">\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; Who would have thought that in the seventeenth century, on a tiny island in the Bay of Antongil in the north east of Madagascar Dutch sailors would be carving the rocks and leaving long detailed messages for one another.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 The\u2019 post office\u2019 at Nosy Mangabe is on the tourist trail, but it is also [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":153,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false,"_uag_custom_page_level_css":"","_FSMCFIC_featured_image_caption":"","_FSMCFIC_featured_image_nocaption":"","_FSMCFIC_featured_image_hide":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[121,118,119,123,124,120,115,117,122,116],"class_list":["post-2666","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-personal-stories","tag-antananarivo","tag-bay-of-antongil","tag-dr-wendy-van-duivenvoorde-mark-polzer","tag-east-inia-company","tag-engage-magazine","tag-flinders-university","tag-jane-fyfe","tag-madagascar","tag-maroansetra","tag-nosy-mangabe"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.7 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>NOSY MANGABE - Many Roads<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/bodhicharya.org\/manyroads\/nosy-mangabe\/\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"Albert\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"3 minutes\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"Article\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/bodhicharya.org\/manyroads\/nosy-mangabe\/#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/bodhicharya.org\/manyroads\/nosy-mangabe\/\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"Albert\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/bodhicharya.org\/manyroads\/#\/schema\/person\/d65113da84d62fbc945e6ee35f823e2a\"},\"headline\":\"NOSY MANGABE\",\"datePublished\":\"2013-12-12T14:39:10+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2013-12-13T09:00:07+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/bodhicharya.org\/manyroads\/nosy-mangabe\/\"},\"wordCount\":684,\"commentCount\":0,\"publisher\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/bodhicharya.org\/manyroads\/#organization\"},\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/bodhicharya.org\/manyroads\/nosy-mangabe\/#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\/\/bodhicharya.org\/manyroads\/files\/2013\/12\/nosy-mugabe.jpg\",\"keywords\":[\"Antananarivo\",\"Bay of Antongil\",\"Dr Wendy van Duivenvoorde. 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