Austric
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This reminds me of a theory that Cro-Magnons came from the
Indonesian Island of Halmahera! There are some problems with the Austric
theory. The main one is that Sundaland and Indonesia were occupied by
Indo-Pacific peoples who only had primitive canoes. They hadn't even
made it to most of the Pacific Islands, which would have been much
easier than sailing to Europe.
Sea levels did not rise "all at once". They rose slowly over
thousands of years. It was so slow that people wouldn't even have
noticed it.
Sea levels also covered large areas of the North Sea. The only place
that there was a sudden rise in sea level was the Black Sea.
According to Colin McEvedy's THE PENGUIN HISTORICAL ATLAS OF THE
PACIFIC, the Proto-Austronesians didn't even enter Taiwan until about
4000 BC. It wasn't until about 2500 BC that they explored the islands
south of the Philippines. It is impossible for them to have sailed from
Indonesia to Europe in 6000 BC. They weren't even in Indonesia yet.
They weren't even in Taiwan yet. They were living in mainland China.
In the extremely unlikely event that people sailed from Sundaland
to India and Europe, they would have been speaking Indo-Pacific
languages and NOT Austric or Austronesian ones.
It wasn't until 4000 BC that Austro-Asiatics even reached the
Nicobar Islands, which are near Thailand and Myanmar.
Merrit Ruhlen has written about Austric languages being one of the
branches of Proto-World.
Thor Heyerdahl wrote extensively about possible voyages from the
Mediterranean area to the Americas and from there to Polynesia, but
these would have begun around 1500 BC at the earliest. He has also
written about redhaired voyagers from Europe or the Mediterranean who
sailed to Sumer, Bahrain and India at an early date.
It is possible that the Jomon People followed the coast all the way
to Ecuador as early as 2000 BC, but the people of Indonesia weren't
doing much travelling at this time.
The migrations of people and cultures were moving eastwards and
southwards across Asia, not westwards. People migrated TO Indonesia, not
FROM it. The Polynesian movement into the Pacific didn't start before
1200 BC.
There are a few supposed similarites between Polynesian and western
languages.
"ariki" meant "nobles". The word for Sun, "la" has been compared to
Irish la and Egyptian Ra.
But Polynesian is Austronesian, NOT Indo-Pacific. Indo-Pacific is
spoken by natives in New Guinea.
http://www.delphi.com/paleolinguistic