Stephen Oppenheimer:
Southeast Asia is the source of Western civilization

February 2, 2011

HE is neither an archeologist nor a geologist. Stephen James Oppenheimer is actually a genetics expert, who got his medical degree from Oxford University. But about four decades ago he began to be attracted to pre-historic human civilization. Twelve years ago he wrote Eden in the East, a controversial work which states that Indonesia was the beginning of world civilization. In an interview Oppenheimer spoke to Tempo reporter Pramono about his boo

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