This map shows the spread of Homo sapiens out of Africa and across the globe, with very approximate dates.
Author: Altaileopard in 2006
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Why did it take so long for humans to get to Madagascar? Even Australia was reached much sooner, and that's so much farther away and separated by wider oceans.
Apparently Madagascar was discovered before this picture says, potentially as early as 8500 BCE. The date there is for unambiguous continued human presence, that starts at 490 CE.
It was all dry land to Indonesia, inbetween indonesia and australia there is deep ocean, but during the ice age it was lowland all the way out through indonesia.