[JimSEA]

Your memory is better than mine! The Sumerian connection on agricultue and myths is centeral to Eden in the East. The flooding of Southeast Asia would have been finished by about 8,000 years ago. With wheat being cultivated in West Asia 23,000 years ago, a main objection to the idea of this Eden of the East is knocked down (the "They couldn't have had agriculture" objection).

[blam]

" The Sumerian connection on agricultue and myths is centeral to Eden in the East. The flooding of Southeast Asia would have been finished by about 8,000 years ago. With wheat being cultivated in West Asia 23,000 years ago, a main objection to the idea of this Eden of the East is knocked down (the "They couldn't have had agriculture" objection)."

Is there reason not to expect that all these folks were trading during the Ice Age?