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Both waves originate from the same stock of people, but the protoMalay people were a culturally retarded stock who fled Indochina before they learned civilization. Today, generally speaking, the proto-Malays occupy the agricultural interiors while the deutero-Malays have settled the coastal regions. These two types in turn greatly mixed with the non-Malay earlier immigrants. Indonesian life was already well-establis hed before Christ was born. Bronze and iron have been in use in some parts of Indonesia since at least 2500 B.C.; these neolithic peoples made huge bronze drums and chopping hoes. They knew how to grow rice, use bamboo pipes for irrigation, and buffaloes for drawing plows. These were matriarchal societies and organized villages under adat law. They could navigate by stars as far as India. They had animist beliefs and worshipped ancestors. There was puppetry, music, coil pottery, cloth, fighting arts. They absorbed war fleets, political systems, and religions.