[JimSEA]

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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Korat Plateau