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Sundaland

[Steve_Seattle]

" . . . the roots of the great flowering of civilisation in the fertile crescent of the Ancient Near East lay in the sinking shorelines of Southeast Asia."

He lost me right there. Sounds like a naked attempt to link the rise and fall of civilizations to current "climate change" fashions. Wouldn't those "sinking shorelines" take millennia to occur, thereby having a virtually imperceptible, gradual, and negligible effect on human culture? Isn't it like saying that the end of the last ice age gave rise to the invention of the steam engine?

[Boogieman]

“He states as a ‘myth-type’ the parable of the ‘two warring brothers’ which had arisen in eastern Indonesia...”

Why assume it arose in Indonesia? Seems more likely that both the Indonesian version and other similar myths both came from an older, original source.