QUATERNARY INTERNATIONAL

The Journal of the International Union for Quaternary Research

EDITOR-IN-CHIEF
Norm R. Catto Department of Geography, Memorial University of Newfoundland, St Johns, Newfoundland, A1B 3X9 Canada

ASSISTANT EDITOR
Thijs van Kolfschoten Faculty of Archaeology, University of Leiden, P.O. Box 9515, 2300 RA Leiden, The Netherlands

FOUNDING EDITOR
Nat Rutter

EDITORIAL BOARD
R.M. Albert, Barcelona, Spain F. Antonioli, Rome, Italy F.A. Audemard, CARACAS, Venezuela M.D. Avery, Cape Town, South Africa P.T. Bobrowsky, Ottawa, Canada L.A. Borrero, Buenos Aires, Argentina M. Bse, Berlin, Germany J. Brigham-Grette, Amherst, U.S.A. J.J. Clague, Burnaby, Canada E.A.C. Costantini, Firenze, Italy D. Faust, Dresden, Germany C. Gamble, Egham, U.K. N. Gerasimenko, Kyiv, Ukraine S. Harrison, Sydney, Australia V.M.A. Heyvaert, Brussels, Belgium Y.-M. Hou, Bejing, China E. Johnson, Lubbock, U.S.A. J.-Y. Kim , Daejeon, South Korea J.R. Knott, Fullerton, U.S.A. M. anczont, Lublin, Poland J.B. Lejju, Mbarara, Uganda S.A.G. Leroy, Uxbridge, U.K. M.F. Loutre, Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium D.J. Lowe, Hamilton, New Zealand J. Lowe, Egham, U.K. X.X. Lu, Singapore, Singapore M. Madella, Barcelona, Spain A. Makeev, Moscow, Russian S. Markovic, Novi Sad, Serbia L.L. Miotti, La Plata, Argentina M.-H. Moncel, Paris, France A. Nadachowski, Krakow, Poland K. Okumura, Hiroshima, Japan D. Olago, Nairobi, Kenya L.A. Owen, Cincinnati, U.S.A. M. Pacher, Vienna, Austria M.R. Palombo, Rome, Italy J. Rose, Egham, U.K. Y. Saito, Tsukuba, Japan M.F. Sanchez-Gon i, Talence, France J. Satkunas, Vilnius, Lithuania R. Sinha, Kanpur, India C. Sloss, Brisbane, Australia A. Stroeven, Stockholm, Sweden A.A. Velichko, Moscow, Russia N.J. Whitehouse, Belfast, U.K. X.P. Yang, Beijing, China Y. Yasuda, Kyoto, Japan

AIMS AND SCOPE Quaternary International is the official journal of the International Union for Quaternary Research. The objectives are to publish a high quality scientic journal under the auspices of the premier Quaternary association that reects the interdisciplinary nature of INQUA and records recent advances in Quaternary Science that appeal to a wide audience. This series will encompass all the full spectrum of the physical and natural sciences that are commonly employed in solving Quaternary problems. The policy is to publish peer refereed collected research papers from symposia, workshops and meetings sponsored by INQUAs Commissions, Sub-Commission projects and working groups. In addition, other organizations may request publication of their collected works pertaining to the Quaternary. Potential Guest Editors who are interested in proposing a Thematic volume are kindly requested to contact the Editor-in-Chief, Professor Norm Catto, directly at the e-mail address ncatto@mun.ca. Guest Editors will be appointed for each volume. Publishing Offices Elsevier Ltd. The Boulevard, Langford Lane, Kidlington, Oxford OX5 1GB, U.K. Elsevier Ltd., 525 B Street, Suite 1900, San Diego, CA 92101-4495, USA

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