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The drowned Asian continent of Sundaland and the diaspora of its peoples around 6K years ago has been a well-worked thread in recent years by the "Lost Civilization" crowd, Graham Hancock, Robert Schoch, et alia. This book was written before their books (except Fingerprints of the Gods, which was a couple of years earlier), and it does not address questions of megalithic or lost advanced technologies, and deals only with the genetic and linguistic evidence, which it does in great detail. Note also that Bucky Fuller also suggested this theme of a Southeast Asian human homeland in Critical Path, many years ago.

The book offers good detail on the timeline of the gradual drowning of Sundaland and other coastal regions, and does not attribute the whole process to one cataclysm 12K years ago. He even says that the sea level was rather higher than today at one point, accounting for the several-meter silt layer in Mesopotamia with ruins above and below. This was news to me.

This and Oppenheimer's later book Out of Eden, dealing with the larger framework of dispersal out of Africa, form an interesting counterpoint to Cavalli-Sforza's Genes Peoples and Languages, on the same larger theme. Oppenheimer criticizes Cavalli-Sforza's use of the statistical method of Principle Components, about which he has his own ideas and interpretations, a good second opinion on this stuff although I don't think that the conclusions are radically different.

I say it's tedious at times because the technical detail on the Y-chromosome and mt-DNA diffusion tracks is at times more than I can take in; perhaps there might have been another way to organize this material. But all in all, this really is a must-read for the Lost Civilization thread.


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Eden in the East The Drowned Continent of Southeast Asia Stephen Oppenheimer 9780753806791 Books Reviews

The detail and erudition of the research and the exposition of findings are outstanding. The future of continuing research will add to our understanding of our origins.
Stephen Oppenheimer is the first author to treat this subject in an extensive manner using both scientific evidence and comparative mythology. He brings together a wide range of complimentary fields to support his theory on the rise of Southeast Asian during the Neolithic and Bronze Age periods. A must read for those interested in new historical perspectives.
Interesting premise which is painstakingly researched and documented. Oppenheimer makes a very cogent argument which if true will completely rewrite history!
excellent book
I enjoyed reading this book and feel that the author made a good case for his premise if not a compelling one.

I was troubled by the use of references which are obviously false for example

Page 247 (17) "Noah, who altogether reigned for 1565 years or 86400 weeks"
I cannot believe that anyone lived this long there has to be an error in the translation of this myth.
The number 86,400 is the number of seconds in a day ( the sumerians divided the solar day into 24 hours, 60 minutes, and 60 seconds)
while this number is well known to those who compute the trajectories of deep space probes It is not a commonly use number
and there is no reason I can think of the relate this number to years or weeks.

Page 250 paragraph 3 "the ten kings ruled for 432,000 years (that is 86,400X 5, five years being 60 months)

There is more of this nonsense with numbers which should have been examined. for example sumerian time periods also contained fractions of years which would have essentially reduced the total by a factor of ten...950 year would have become 95

It is possible that scribes could have misread ancient texts which used numbering systems that were no longer in use.

THESE NUMBER DON'T MAKE SENSE

Roland Boucher
This is a brilliantly interesting book! Lots of information and ideas well presented. It presents a theory concerning the movement of people into the Pacific area after the Ice Age. It is scholarly non fiction with good scientific basis.
The drowned Asian continent of Sundaland and the diaspora of its peoples around 6K years ago has been a well-worked thread in recent years by the "Lost Civilization" crowd, Graham Hancock, Robert Schoch, et alia. This book was written before their books (except Fingerprints of the Gods, which was a couple of years earlier), and it does not address questions of megalithic or lost advanced technologies, and deals only with the genetic and linguistic evidence, which it does in great detail. Note also that Bucky Fuller also suggested this theme of a Southeast Asian human homeland in Critical Path, many years ago.

The book offers good detail on the timeline of the gradual drowning of Sundaland and other coastal regions, and does not attribute the whole process to one cataclysm 12K years ago. He even says that the sea level was rather higher than today at one point, accounting for the several-meter silt layer in Mesopotamia with ruins above and below. This was news to me.

This and Oppenheimer's later book Out of Eden, dealing with the larger framework of dispersal out of Africa, form an interesting counterpoint to Cavalli-Sforza's Genes Peoples and Languages, on the same larger theme. Oppenheimer criticizes Cavalli-Sforza's use of the statistical method of Principle Components, about which he has his own ideas and interpretations, a good second opinion on this stuff although I don't think that the conclusions are radically different.

I say it's tedious at times because the technical detail on the Y-chromosome and mt-DNA diffusion tracks is at times more than I can take in; perhaps there might have been another way to organize this material. But all in all, this really is a must-read for the Lost Civilization thread.