Maritime Southeast Asia

And there's also a molar from Tangyouhao 2 Cave in Northern Laos that has also been linked to Denisovans.

Not to mention that the highest levels of Denisovan ancestry that are preserved in modern living people can be found in Island Southeast Asia among the Philippine Ayta, as well as in Papuans and Indigenous Australian populations.

Perhaps Denisovans or at least one branch of Denisovans were from the south.

Yeah, that's a, that's a good question.

So there's A lot of complexities here to, you know, and I think like unique aspects to how Indonesia became how it is today and the kind of through line of Pancasila in the modern era.

So anyways, instead, the historical region of Maritime Southeast Asia known in Bahasa Indonesia as Nusantara is...

Consisted of a diverse network of maritime polities spanning what are now Indonesia, Brunei, Malaysia, Singapore, Timor-Leste, Sri Lanka, and parts of Thailand, Burma, and the Philippines, which I know, John, you've heard of some of those, but you know that there are other countries on that list just hanging out.

They exist out there.