English paperback edition
ISBN-13: 979-8180640031
ASIN: B0H4R5DPTL
Print length: 264 pages
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Altars of the Deluge, by Miguel Ángel García-Sánchez: Sundaland, Indonesia, Gunung Padang, Tana Toraja, living megalithism and submerged prehistory.
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Altars of the Deluge is a narrative journey through Indonesia that explores how human memory turns water, stone and funerary ritual into cultural responses to loss, death and submerged landscapes.
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ASIN: B0H4QCQGK5
Kindle print length: 268 pages
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Short synopsis
Altars of the Deluge is a narrative journey through Indonesia, connecting Sundaland, Gunung Padang, Sumba, Sulawesi and Tana Toraja with cultural memory, water, stone, the dead and submerged landscapes.
Medium synopsis
Between travel writing, cultural anthropology and narrative archaeology, Altars of the Deluge moves through Java, Sumba and Sulawesi to explore how human societies turn stone, funerary ritual and mountains into technologies of memory. The book approaches Sundaland, sea-level rise, Gunung Padang, living megalithism and Torajan ritual without turning hypothesis into dogma.
Long synopsis
Altars of the Deluge begins with a real journey through Indonesia and follows the material and symbolic traces that survive water. From the submerged Sunda Shelf to Gunung Padang, from the living megaliths of Sumba to the funerary rituals of Tana Toraja, Miguel Ángel García-Sánchez builds a work of narrative non-fiction in which travel experience meets archaeology, geology, cultural anthropology and myth. The book does not offer a closed thesis: it proposes a cautious reading of convergent cultural responses to biogeographical, social and spiritual loss.
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Sundaland and submerged prehistory
How a landscape now covered by the sea reshapes questions of memory, migration and territorial loss.
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Gunung Padang without sensationalism
Why a controversial site can be narratively fertile without requiring impossible certainty.
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Living megalithism in Sumba and Sulawesi
Stone as social memory, lineage, mourning and ritual architecture still in action.
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Travel as a way to think better
Travel as narrative method: looking, doubting, correcting intuition and writing from caution.
Author
Bio of Miguel Ángel García-Sánchez
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Miguel Ángel García-Sánchez is the author of Altars of the Deluge, a work of narrative archaeology and cultural travel focused on Indonesia, Sundaland, living megalithism and ritual memory.
Extended bio
In Altars of the Deluge, Miguel Ángel García-Sánchez combines first-hand travel observation, documentary research and essayistic writing grounded in interpretive caution. His focus is on the places where stone, water, ritual and collective memory intersect: Java, Sumba, Sulawesi, Gunung Padang, Tana Toraja and the ancient landscape of Sundaland.
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Miguel Ángel García-Sánchez, Altars of the Deluge: Cave Art, Megaliths, Pyramids and the Submerged Prehistory of Java, Sumba, Sulawesi and Sundaland, first edition, 2026, ISBN 979-8180640031. Official site: floodaltars.com/en/.