Eden in the East
the drowned continent of Southeast Asia
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Word Count
140,000 words, Guess
Page Count
560 pages
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- Internet Archiveedenineastdrowne00oppe
- ISBN-100753806797
- ISBN-139780753806791
- LibraryThing617289
- Library of Congress Control Number99488549
and 2 more
- Better World Books9780753806791
- Open LibraryOL121911M
Classifications
- DDC959.0/1
- LCCGN635.S58 O66 1999
- LCCGN635.S58O66 1999
Description
"At the end of the Ice Age, Southeast Asia formed a continent twice the size of India. The South China Sea, the Gulf of Thailand and the Java Sea, which were all dry, formed the connecting parts of the continent. Geologically, this half-sunken continent is the Sunda shelf of Sundaland. In Eden in the East Stephen Oppenheimer puts forward the astonishing argument that here in Southeast Asia was the cradle of civilisation that fertilised the great cultures of China, India, Mesopotamia, Egypt and Crete six thousand years ago. He produces evidence from ethnography, archaeology, oceanography, from Creation stories, myths and sagas, and from linguistics and DNA analysis, to argue that this founder-civilisation was destroyed by the catastrophic flood, caused by a rapid rise in sea level at the end of the last Ice Age." --from the publisher.
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