The Series
- Ice Age
- Malta
- North Africa
- Akrotiri
- Black Sea
- Great Britain
- Sumer
- Indus Valley
- Indonesia
- Japan
- Polynesia
- Tiahuanacu
- Mexico
- Cuba
The Ice Age
Ice covered northern Europe, west to Siberia, and much
of Canada. The climate was dryer and colder than now in the regions
below the ice line, which maintained a substantial population of large
herbivores, including mammoths, large carnivores, like sabre tooth
tigers, and man.
At lower latitudes, corresponding to presently arid regions as northern
Mexico, the Sahara and the Mesopotamian-Caspian region, climatic
conditions were wetter than now and probably favourable to cattle
breeding and agriculture. In particular, the Sahara was a huge
grassland, its mountains were forested, large lakes filled the
depressions and great rivers were flowing, as has been spectacularly
confirmed by radar photographs from the Shuttle.
In western and central Asia the climate was favourable too, thanks also
to the presence of a huge inner sea which enclosed the Black Sea (during
the glaciations the Black Sea was not connected with the Mediterranean),
the Caspian Sea and probably lake Aral, for an extension almost equal to
that of the Mediterranean.
Finally, heavy vegetation covered the Caribbean region, parts of central
Africa and the Pacific regions of Asia and Australia from middle China
to southern Australia.