Palaeoecology of Africa, volume 18

J.A. Coetzee, Department of Botany, University of Orange Free State, Bloemfontei.

• Foreword, Dedication to E.M. van Zinderen Bakker, Obituary G. Thanikaimoni (1938-1986), Obituary Oliver Davies (1905-1986), A unique record of the pastClimatologyEast African rains of 1961/62 and the abrupt change of the White Nile dischargeAntarcticaThe Antarctic ice sheet during the Late NeogeneOceanographyPleistocene climates in China and Europe compared to oxygen isotope record; Survey of palynologically analysed deep-sea cores in the northeast Atlantic off northwest Africa; History of the Benguela Current off S W Africa (DSDP Sites 362 and 532) Desert palaeoenvironmentsZum Alter jungquartarer Seespiegelschwankungen in der Mittleren Kalahari, Sudliches Afrika; Formation and reactivation of dunes in the southwestern; Palaeoclimatic implications; Les phases d’aridite du Pleistocene supcrieur et de P Holocene au Sahara; Arguments s6dimentologiques; Holocene palaeohydrography of the Niger; Die holozane Vegetation der zentralen Sahara (N-Mali, N-Niger, SW-Libyen); Middle Holocene savanna vegetation in the central Sahara - Preliminary report; Holozane limnische Akkumulationen im Bereich der Stufen von Zoo Baba und Dibella (NE-Niger); Middle Holocene vegetation of the Gilf Kebir/S W EgyptA reconstructionPalaeoclimatic evidence from Early to Mid-Holocene playas in die Gilf Kebir (southwest Egypt); Zur Bodenstratigraphie im nordlichen Afrika; Windschliffe und Windkanter in der wesdichen Zentral-Sahara; East African palaeoenvironments; Palynological intimations on the East African mountains; Palaeoenvironmental problems in the East African Mountains; Environnements botanique et climatique des hominides de l’Est Turkana, Kenya, entre 2,0 et 1,4 millions d ’annees: Apport de la palynologie; Fossil ostracodes from Lake Mobutu (Lake Albert): Palaeoecologic and taphonomic implications; Vegetation and climate of Mt Elgon during the late Pleistocene and HoloceneCentral and West African palaeoenvironmentsFragmentation de la foret dense humide Africaine et extension des biotopes montagnards au Quatemaire recent: Nouvelles donnees polliniques et chronologiques. Implications paleoclimatiques et biogeographiques; Southern African palaeoenvironments; Regional geomorphic evidence for climatic change in Southern Africa since the Mesozoic Islands: Palaeoenvironments; Paleoclimats de 1’ile de Fuerteventura (Archipel Canarien); Pre-settlement vegetation changes at Lake Tritrivakely, Madagascar; Periglacial landforms and processes of the sub-Antarctic and Antarctic IslandsAnthropologyPreliminary report on new hominid dental tapho-data, a new taphonomic hypothesis and two new taphonomic ratios; Archaeology; Some reflections on prehistoric field weeds; Fishing, fowling and hunting in late palaeolithic times in the Nile Valley in Upper Egypt; Early domestic cattle in the easternSahara; Zambia, Book reviews and announcements, Addresses.