'Indonesia Jones' Theory Of Africa

The Guardian (UK) ^ | 1-12-2004 | Rory Carroll

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I'm a believer...Madagascar does it for me.

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Facts About Madagascar

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Bucky Fuller years ago provided some very compelling evidence that the cradle of civilization was not Africa, but was in fact Southeast Asia.

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"Bucky Fuller years ago provided some very compelling evidence that the cradle of civilization was not Africa, but was in fact Southeast Asia."

I read recently that the oldest iron smelter ever found was in Thailand. A suprize for me.

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You should go to Ban Chiang or any of several other, similar sites. There was a very active bronze and Iron age on the Korat Plateau. I am personaly convinces that the Mekong is one of many "cradles of civilization", along with the Indus, that are not yet recognized. It is harder to determine the past when it is covered by a jungle that when it is in the desert.

More on the topic of this post, how can anyone not believe that the Indonesians were incapable of going 150 miles after having come 3400??

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"More on the topic of this post, how can anyone not believe that the Indonesians were incapable of going 150 miles after having come 3400??"

Exactly.

I read an article by a linguists years ago that had gone looking for Indonesian 'borrow' or 'loan' words on the mainland of Africa and did not find any and concluded that the Indonesians on Madagascar must have come by sea. Seems silly now.

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"I am personaly convinces that the Mekong is one of many "cradles of civilization", along with the Indus."

I agree.

Dr Robert Schoch in his recent book, Voyages Of The Pyramid Builders, said that he thought that all the world's pyramids were influenced by the people who once lived on the Sunda Shelf before it went underwater at the end of the Ice Age. They spread out over the entire world...he even speculated that that area could have been the location of Atlantis.

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I will have to read Dr. Schoch's Book. The truly huge area that was innundated at the end of the last Ice age is incredible and, as the Gulf of Thailand and other areas. have been loaded up with so much silt, we may never know much of what went on there.

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" The truly huge area that was innundated at the end of the last Ice age is incredible and, as the Gulf of Thailand and other areas. have been loaded up with so much silt, we may never know much of what went on there."

Yup. Schoch did go underwater off the coast of Japan and declared the 'pyramids' found there to be natural structures.

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Sunda Shelf

More info, please.

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Sunda Shelf (Sundaland)

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The Sunda Shelf is an area around present day Indonesia/Malaysia

Also note, The Sahul Shelf around New Gueina(sp) and northern Australia.

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Over here. This is also Gods, Graves, Glyphs.

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BTW, go to see this on your trip to Zimbabwe.

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"so much to see in the world. I feel I will not have enough time!"

LOL. I got tired of travel before I got to old to travel...I made it around the world four times before age 23. You can do it.

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