Aborigine stories

At http://phys.org/print361773247.html … a paper in Australian Geography 'Aboriginal memories of inundation of the Australian coast dating from more than 7000 years ago' used stories from 21 different places around the coastline of Australia, each desribing when sea levels differed and more land was exposed. The present sea level stabilised arond 7000 years ago, they are saying, and this was probably associated with the 6200BC event (8000 years ago) when the Sunda Shelf was flooded, leaving behind the islands of Indonesia roughly as they are nowadays. See Stephen Oppenheimer, 'Eden in the East: the drowned continent of SE Asia', Weidenfeld and Nicolson:2001