[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?

[Cronos]

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

It's possible. At that time, the sea levels would have been lower, so that sunken city off the coast of India could have traded with cities in the horn of Africa, South East Asia, etc. However, the extremities of the continents would have been uninhabitable -- so America from the Rio Grande north and from the pampas south would have been ice as would Siberia, Europe, Russia, most of China, southern Australia, etc.