Eden in the East : The Drowned Continent of Southeast Asia

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• ISBN13: 9780753806791
• ISBN10: 0753806797
• Format: Trade Paper
• Copyright: 1999-07-01
• Publisher: Orion Publishing

Summary

This book completetly changes the established and conventional view of prehistory by relocating the Lost Edenthe world's first civilisationto 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. InEden in the East,Stephen Oppenheimer puts forward the astonishing argument that here in southeast Asiarather than in Mesopotamia where it is usually placedwas the lost civilization that fertilized the Great cultures of the Middle East 6,000 years ago. He produces evidence from ethnography, archaeology, oceanography, creation stories, myths, linguistics, and DNA analysis to argue that this founding civilization was destroyed by a catastrophic flood, caused by a rapid rise in the sea level at the end of the last ice age.

Table of Contents

List of Illustrations
Preface
Acknowledgements
Prologue	p. 1
Stones, Bones, Genes and Tones
Geology
An Ice Age and Three Floods	p. 23
Archaeology
The Silt Curtain	p. 49
Wet Feet	p. 78
Linguistics
Babel	p. 113
Homeland of the Argonauts	p. 141
Genetics
Eve's Genes	p. 171
Orang Asli: Originals	p. 205
Chinese Whispers
Flood Myths
Five Hundred Cataclysms?	p. 227
Floods in the West	p. 242
Floods in the East	p. 265
Creation
Watery Chaos with Dragons	p. 297
Heaven and Earth	p. 319
The Garden of Eden
The Creation of Man	p. 355
The Quest for Immortality	p. 382
The Dying and Rising Tree God	p. 410
Cain and Abel	p. 441
Epilogue	p. 475
Notes	p. 486
Index	p. 533
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