Long-Held Beliefs About Skull Islanders in King Kong Movies are Actually Wrong (Part II)
Continued considerations on the very real science beneath Skull Island’s science fiction.
Mirrored in the film Gow and travel tome The Sea Gypsy are detailed views of the almost otherworldly locales visited by Salisbury and Cooper. One of the earliest referenced of these is the little-known Andaman Islands, a small chain of islands south of Sri Lanka and west of Myanmar (formerly Burma). And it’s there in the Andamans that one of the three living populations that informed the image of the Skull Islanders can be found.
Estimates suggest that the first humans to reach the Andaman Islands did so as many as 60,000 years ago…or as few as 2,000 years ago.
Clearly, the math on that estimate still needs to be recalculated a tad, but whenever it was that humans definitively began to populate the Andamans, what is certain is that from that time until fairly recently, the Andaman Islanders lived in near total isolation from the rest of the world.
