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Kudos to the article for having 2 clear maps that show exactly the various migrations that they are hypothesizing, including the different time frames.

One sad note: the maps show the present reduced state of the Aral sea, whereas historically, I think it would have had its original size. Unless the cold and dry climate of the time caused the same sort of shrinkage. To think that an entire sea (albeit fragile) has been wiped out by humans in my lifetime...

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The theory is that there was no Aral Sea until the Holocene; the Amu Darya flowed directly into the Caspian, and the Syr Darya flowed into a large lake Southeast of the Aral.

Note just that; the entire maps are showing present-day landscapes instead of ice-age landscapes. There should be glaciers, lower sea levels, and Doggerland.

Basically every historical map of Rome which includes Britannia also depicts the Netherlands as having its current coastline.

Though in that case, correct me if I am wrong, the old coastline was actually further inward.

Yes.

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