Eden in the East: the drowned continent of Southeast Asia

by Oppenheimer, Stephen

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Title Statements

Full title :Eden in the East : the drowned continent of Southeast Asia / Stephen Oppenheimer.

Summary

"At the end of the Ice Age, Southeast Asia formed a continent twice the size of India. The South China Sea, the Gulf of Thailand and the Java Sea, which were all dry, formed the connecting parts of the continent. Geologically, this half-sunken continent is the Sunda shelf of Sundaland. In Eden in the East Stephen Oppenheimer puts forward the astonishing argument that here in Southeast Asia was the cradle of civilisation that fertilised the great cultures of China, India, Mesopotamia, Egypt and Crete six thousand years ago. He produces evidence from ethnography, archaeology, oceanography, from Creation stories, myths and sagas, and from linguistics and DNA analysis, to argue that this founder-civilisation was destroyed by the catastrophic flood, caused by a rapid rise in sea level at the end of the last Ice Age."--The publisher

Edition Statements

Publication Date:1998.

Publication Statements

Publisher(s):Weidenfeld and Nicolson
Place of Publication:London
Language:eng
Publication Date:1998.

The Physical Object

Description:xiv, 560 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : : illustrations, maps ; : 24 cm

Edition Identifiers

ISBN:0297818163, 9780297818168
oclc:ocm40559015
LC Classification:GN635.S58
Dewey Decimal:939.3

Subjects

Asie du Sud-Est -- Civilisation Civilization Comparative studies Déluge Deluge -- Comparative studies Déluge -- Études comparatives Mythologie Mythology mythology (literary genre) Prehistoric peoples Prehistoric peoples -- Southeast Asia Southeast Asia Southeast Asia -- Civilization Südostasien Vor- und Frühgeschichte Vorgeschichte