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are highlighted between places as far flung as New Guinea and the Czech republic.

Not only does the book present the argument for migrations from east to west, but some of the big questions, such as the origins of Rice cultivation, come under attack. Also most of the mythological motifs of Europe and the Middle East seem to have their origins in South East Asia, the obvious one being the Flood itself. As people move from on drowning homeland to new places of opportunity, they take with them not only the physical and technological markers, but their history and beliefs. It is in this realm that many convincing arguments are conceived, as the stories and beliefs of those migrants get a new home, subsequent generations naturally adapt those belief systems to their new surroundings, and thus lore and legend get re-located. So does all this mean that the origins of the very foundations of Western Civilization lie in the migrations of dispossessed Asian and Polynesian peoples? Read the book.

It is a book that challenges the mainstream arguments that are currently held as carved in stone, and although you will probably close the book with more questions that answers, the information that has just been put before you will show you that there are still areas of history that can be totally shaken up, areas that need to be questioned into submission. As someone once said "only the wise know that they know nothing", and that would be a good adage for the modern day establishment to remember. This book should certainly liven up the debate.

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