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Foreword VII
H. USINGER Vegetation and climate of the lowlands of northern Central Europe and adjacent areas around the Younger Dryas * Preboreal transition - with special emphasis on the Preboreal oscillation 1
P. DE KLERK Changes in vegetation and environment at the Lateglacial - Holocene transition in Vorpommern (Northeast Germany) 27
N. BENECKE Faunal succession in the lowlands of northern Central Europe at the Pleistocene - Holocene transition 43
K. KAISER Geomorphic characterization of the Pleistocene - Holocene transition in Northeast Germany 53
K. MOLLER HANSEN/ E. BRINCH PETERSEN/ K. AARIS-S0RENSEN Filling the gap: Early Preboreal Magiemose elk deposits at Lundby, Sjaslland, Denmark 75
M. S0RENSEN/ F. STERNKE N©rregard VI — Lateglacial hunters in transition 85
C. CASATI/ L. S0RENSEN/ M. VENNERSDORF Current research of the early Mesolithic on Bornholm, Denmark 113
M. KOBUSIEWICZ The problem of the Palaeolithic - Mesolithic transition on the Polish Plain: state of research 133
I. CLAUSEN The Reindeer antler axe of the Allemd period from Klappholz LA 63, Kreis Schleswig-Flensburg/ Germany. Is it a relict of the Federmesser, Brotnme or Ahrensburg culture? 141 E. CZIESLA Late Upper Palaeolithic and Mesolithic cultural continuity - or: bone and antler objects from the Havelland 165
B. GRAMSCH From the Late Palaeolithic to the early Mesolithic in northeastern Germany 183
T. TERBERGER The Younger Dryas - Preboreal transition in northern Germany — facts and concepts in discussion 203
D. STAPERT Magiemose huts and Duvensee: Spatial analysis with 'ANALITHIC 223
G. DALMERI/ S. FERRARI/ M. PERESANI Rise and fall in the utilization of trapezoidal microliths during the late Upper Palaeolithic in Europe - an overview from the Italian record 243
Y. KUDO Reconsidering the geochronological and archaeological framework of the late Pleistocene - early Holocene transition on the Japanese islands 253
List of contributors 269