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Inferences on the Problem of the Pleistocene Climate of Palestine and Syria drawn from Flora, Fauna and Stratigraphy*

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  28 May 2014

L. Picard
L. Picard
Affiliation:
The Hebrew University, Jerusalem
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Setting aside the cosmological and meteorological speculations on the reconstruction of the climate of the south-eastern Mediterranean countries in the Pleistocene epoch, the bases of which are somewhat inadequate, there remains only geological evidence for the interpretation of that epoch. This evidence includes the information yielded by sediments: in the first place, those terrestrial types of soils which are the strongest indicators of climate influences and in the second place, the fauna and flora, in so far as types with enhanced power of climatological reaction are in any way recognisable. In 1932, I discussed the significance of the soils and will dwell on this subject at the end of this paper. My present task is mainly concerned with an attempt to submit the Pleistocene livingworld—within the limits of our present knowledge—to a critical investigation and to reconcile the results with our previous conclusions.

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Proceedings of the Prehistoric Society , Volume 3 , Issue 1-2 , 1937 , pp. 58 - 70
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Copyright © The Prehistoric Society 1937

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Footnotes

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This investigation was subsidised by the Royal Society (Langley Fund) and the paper was read before the International Quaternary Congress at Vienna, September, 1936.

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