[Graymatter]

So...were there people in Melanesia 12KYA? What do we have to compare this to? Any 12KYA Melanesian bones in the lab?

[Strategerist]

So...were there people in Melanesia 12KYA? What do we have to compare this to? Any 12KYA Melanesian bones in the lab?

Of course. Heck, there were people in Australia 50,000 years ago.

[blam]

"So...were there people in Melanesia 12KYA? What do we have to compare this to? Any 12KYA Melanesian bones in the lab?"

Sundaland. I'm beginning to think that the ancestors of most humans alive today, minus the stay-at-home Africans, spent the Ice Age in sunny SE Asia (Sundaland) and when Sundaland went under water at the end of the Ice Age...They migrated to points all over the globe.

A theory that I've 'picked-up' from Professor Stephen Oppenheimer.

Eden In The East

I'm also beginning to believe that the Caucasians and Mongoloids parted ways around 18,000 years ago during the Last Glacial Maximum.