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IIRC all of the island nations around Indonesia were connected to each other and to the mainland during the pleistocene. Hardly a surprise that there was a sha
by tastyfreeze 3y ago
IIRC all of the island nations around Indonesia were connected to each other and to the mainland during the pleistocene. Hardly a surprise that there was a shared culture when it is all the same landmass with no dividing mountains.
- angiosperm 3y agoYes. Sea level 20kya was 400 feet lower. A million square miles in the region started being inundated then. A common experience of everyone dependent on the sea, 12kya, was seeing their grandparents' villages disappear under water.
- dmn322 3y agoI don't think that's the case across the wallace line... could be wrong.
- angiosperm 3y agoWe know they had boats, because they had got to New Guinea and Australia tens of thousands of years before. But, yes, the Wallace line was never open land.