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The Austronesian dispersal eastward across the Pacific Ocean and westward across the Indian Ocean is increasingly well documented from historical, archaeological, and genetic perspectives (Beaujard 2012a, 2012b; Duggan et al. 2014; Brucato et al. 2016, 2018; Crowther et al. 2016; Skoglund et al. 2016; Bellwood 2017; Pierron et al. 2017). On the western edge of the Austronesian expansion, the Indian Ocean trading network during the last two millennia led to an exchange of ideas, goods, and also people among Africa, the Middle East, and Asia (Beaujard 2012a, 2012b). Recent studies have reconciled historical, linguistic, and genetic data to reconstruct this interaction network, identified the Asian population that is the source of the Austronesian dispersal (the Banjar from Southeast Borneo in Indonesia), and proposed a robust hypothesis for the timing (between the eighth and thirteenth centuries) and the nature of admixture processes in the East African offshore Islands of Madagascar and the Comoros (Pierron et al. 2014; Brucato et al. 2016, 2017, 2018).