Lost Kingdom of Sundaland

The ice age was a completely different world than the one we know, and there was a very particular place in what is now Indonesia, scientists call it Sundaland, and while in North America, Europe and most of Asia, Indonesia existed a territory, In addition to the Islands that we already know, it covered almost 2 million square kilometers more that are now under the sea and that had a warm climate where there were jungles, forests, grasslands, there were all kinds of animals, elephants, rhinos, these when the level rose from the sea they were isolated on the islands of Indonesia.

There were even different human species, the last ice age, the most recent one, began 110,000 years ago and ended about 10,000 years ago. It was the time when Homo Sapiens, our species, left Africa and expanded around the world.

We arrived at Sundaland approximately 60,000 years ago, we may have arrived earlier, but 60,000 years is the adaptation of the oldest human remains found in the region, specifically on what is now the island of Sumatra, at that time they still existed. In what is Sundaland, which is now Indonesia, at least two other species of homo, on the Philippine island of Luzon there was another species of homo, Homo luzonensis, which became extinct between 60,000 to 50,000 years ago. Unfortunately, very few bones and remains are preserved. of the.

Although perhaps the most famous is the Floresiensis man, named after the island of flowers and who has also been nicknamed The Hobbit because he was very small in size, the flower men also unfortunately became extinct about 50,000 years ago, although they were little ones hunted elephants, be careful with them, everything indicates that their extinction was caused by the expansion of humans.

There is a somewhat intriguing question, we know that the sea level rose after the ice age approximately 10,000 years ago, 1800,000 square km were lost, now they are under the water, we know that there were two other species of homo when humans arrived, The question is, could there be another species of homo, one that we do not know that we do not have remains that have been left in that flooded area.

There are regions populated by jungles and mountains that are very difficult to access, there are many things to investigate and many mysteries to solve. It is the lost world of Sundaland and the discoveries that can be made in it can be amazing, for example, last year in In a cave in the Celebes Islands, what experts say is the oldest cave painting in the world was discovered. It is about 45,500 years old. The painting represents a Celebes warthog, which is an animal native to the island and is part of a group of 73 figures and yet it is in competition with another painting also found on the island of Borneo, specifically in Calimat, that painting is dated 51,800 years old. What is clear is that we still have a lot to investigate in what was once Sundaland, It was a territory that united the Islands and served as a warm refuge for humans during the ice age, a refuge that few places in the world offered at that time.

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