Eden In The East: The Drowned Continent Of Southeast Asia

This book completely changes the established and conventional view of prehistory by relocating the Lost Eden—the world's first civilisation—to Southeast Asia. At the end of the Ice Age, Southeast Asia formed a continent twice the size of India, which included Indochina, Malaysia, Indonesia, and Borneo. Stephen Oppenheimer argues that here in Southeast Asia—rather than in Mesopotamia—was the lost civilization that influenced the great cultures of the Middle East 6,000 years ago. He presents evidence from ethnography, archaeology, oceanography, creation stories, myths, linguistics, and DNA analysis to support this theory.