Out of Eden: The Peopling of the World
Book by Stephen Oppenheimer
Book by Stephen Oppenheimer
As a Cultural Heritage Specialist doing research and media work, I could not put this book down. In fact I re-read the sections on the migration out of Africa and especially the parts on Southeast Asia/ Australasia and the peopling of Sundaland (nickname for the then unsunken continent known to the Malay peoples as 'Benua Mu'), and after the deluge now the Malay Archipelago. It's interesting how all the native Bumiputra/ Pribumi of Malaysia, Indonesia and the Philippines - whether Orang Asli/Suku Terasing or all the Rumpun Melayu/ Austronesians - are indeed co-indigenous to Southeast Asia straight from Africa and not wholesale ancient migrants from or via Yunnan, China or wherever as once thought. There is an ancient co-existing link between all of the natives, with the Melayu Asli even having a very unique genetic fingerprint not found anywhere else on Earth. My copy of the book even has the autograph of Dr. Oppenheimer himself, which I obtained during his Keynote Address at the Sungai Batu International Conference in Sungai Petani, Malaysia in May, 2016.
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| Was reading this book everywhere, even kept me up at night. |
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