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Chronicle (Levin), 17 January 1948, Page 5

■ Reeeived Friday, 7,0 p.m. LONDON, Janiiary 16. The Times' Cairo correspondent says fnrther evidence is lending new weight- to the theory that aneient man moved from Asia to Africa aeross "the land-bridge of tha Sinai peninsnlar, " is aimounced in a report Teaching' Cairo of the discovery of Stone Age sites in Northei'n Sinai by the University of California African . expedition led by Mr. "William B. Terry.' The repoft claims that these finds "constitute the first prpof that our Stone Age ancestors moved across this region betiYeen, Palestine ancl the Nile Valley. xuv .•/' "The most important site was Low ITill at Rafah, near the Palestine border, where .a superb series of hand axes used by early man 50,000v years .ago, was collected." The report adds that the new site.is one of the most important surface settlemen-ts in south western .Asia and antedates, the, Neanderthal oceupation of Mount Carmel and Palestine. • - "VVork is continuing near the Oulf of Suez where caves" and gravel beds are being explored for traces. of early man. * >