PrehistoricNation
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According A.L. Kroeber, Anthropology experts, the human race is divided into 4 major racial groups, namely:
1. Caucasoid
- Nordic (Northern Europe around the Baltic Sea)
- Alpine (Central and Eastern Europe)
- Mediterranean (Mediterranean, North Africa, Armenia, Arabia and Iran)
- Indic (Indian)
2. Mongoloid
- Asiatic Mongoloid (North Asia, Central Asia and East Asia)
- Malayan Mongoloid (Southeast Asia, Indonesia, Malaysia and the Philippines)
- American Mongoloid (The Eskimos in North America until the inhabitants of Terra del Fuego in South America)
3. Negroid
- African Negroid (African continent)
- Negrito (Central Africa, most of Malaysia and some of the Philippines)
- Melanesian (Papua / New Guinea and Melanesia)
4. Special races (not classified)
- Bushman (in the Kalahari desert in South Africa)
- Veddoid (rural Sri Lanka, South Sulawesi)
- Austroloid (Native Australian)
- Polynesian (islands of Micronesia and Polynesia)
- Ainu (Karafuto islands, Hokkaido in northern Japan)
The Indonesian nation consists of several major races of Mongoloid race, Melanesian race, and race Veddoid.
According to Djoko Pramono in his book Budaya Bahari (Maritime Culture), most theories about the prehistoric cultures that come from the West to explain that the Indonesian nation ancestors came from mainland Southeast Asia (Indochina/Yunan) in two major waves of migration is expected around the year 5000 BC and 2000 BC.
In the same book, Djoko Pramono would give a different hypothesis. Some theories would indicate firmly that the ancestors of the Indonesian nation has existed since thousands of years before the big migrants.
Around the year 10.000 BC, the ancestor of the Indonesian nation has settled at least on the islands of Muna, Seram and Arguni. This was revealed by the findings of the history of rock caves containing paintings. And the painting is filled with a lot of sailboat paintings as a principal instrument in their marine life.