Foreword, Dedication to E.M. van Zinderen Bakker, Obituary G. Thanikaimoni (1938-1986), Obituary Oliver Davies (1905-1986), A unique record of the past

Climatology

East African rains of 1961/62 and the abrupt change of the White Nile discharge

Antarctica

The Antarctic ice sheet during the Late Neogene

Oceanography

Pleistocene 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 palaeoenvironments

Zum 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 Egypt

A reconstruction

Palaeoclimatic 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 Holocene

Central and West African palaeoenvironments

Fragmentation 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 Islands

Anthropology

Preliminary 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.