Contents Page 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.