| Show proof of changes changes in climate of palestine palestine flowing with milk lunk and lioney honey has been an entirely differ ent sort of country in ages of the past anthropologists report from studying bones of animals that inhabited the land four or five thousand years before the children of israel came seeking their promised land palestine had a dry climate and was mainly desert earlier in the Aurignac lan period of the old stone age the palestine n e landscape was wooded thou though ll 11 gradually r a d bally developing open spaces still earlier in the latter part ot of the period the age of the uncouth clumsy neanderthal men the land of palestine was heavily wooded due to heavy rainfall in tile the first part of the palestine was a warm and pleasant plea ant land with large rivers and hills clad aith ith forest these suggestions are made by miss dorothy garrod british anthropologist and theodore mccown of berkeley calif as a result of their examinations of deposits they excavated as members of the joint expedition to the neighborhood of mount carmel from the american school of prehistoric studies and the british school ot of archeology archaeology Arche in jerusalem in the dep deposits its of the period they found fossils ot of rhinoceros hippopotamus crocodile and wart hog indicating that the climate was subtropical or tropical fossils of other species such as deer suggested the topography science service new york world telegram 0 |
