Holocene Palaeoenvironmental History of the Central Sahara

FOREWORD -Jurgen Runge IN MEMORIAM JOHANNA ALIDA COETZEE (1921-2007) -Klaus Heine PREFACE AND INTRODUCTION -Roland Baumhauer 1 GEOMORPHOLOGICAL AND PALAEOENVIRONMENTAL RESEARCH IN THE SOUTH-CENTRAL SAHARA IN REVIEW -Roland Baumhauer, Peter Felix-Henningsen & Brigitta Schutt 2 COMPARISON OF PROXY-BASED PALAEOENVIRONMENTAL RECONSTRUCTIONS AND HINDCASTMODELLED ANNUAL PRECIPITATION-A REVIEW OF HOLOCENE PALAEOENVIRONMENTAL RESEARCH IN THE CENTRAL SAHARA -Brigitta Schutt & Jan Krause 3 HOLOCENE PALAEOENVIRONMENTAL CHANGES IN CENTRAL SAHARA INFERRED FROM SEGGEDIM SCARP FOOT DEPRESSION (NE-NIGER) -Roland Baumhauer, Jens Brauneck, Barbara Sponholz, Erhardt Schulz, Oumarou Faran Maiga, Ibrahim Sani & Simon Pomel 4 THE DESERT IN THE SAHARA. TRANSITIONS AND BOUNDARIES -Erhard Schulz, Abdelhakim Abichou, Aboubacar Adamou, Aziz Ballouche & Issa Ousseini 5 PALAEO-CLIMATIC EVIDENCE OF SOIL DEVELOPMENT ON SAHELIAN ANCIENT DUNES OF DIFFERENT AGE IN NIGER, CHAD AND MAURITANIA -Peter Felix-Henningsen, Peter Kornatz & Einar Eberhardt 6 ARE THERE VALUABLE PEDOLOGICAL PALAEOENVIRONMENTAL INDICATORS IN NORTHERN CHAD? -Ludger Herrmann, Mohamed Mounkaila & Frieder Graef 7 NEW DISCOVERY OF ROCK FULGURITES IN THE CENTRAL SAHARA -Barbara Sponholz 8 FLUVIAL GEOMORPHOLOGY AND PALAEOHYDROLOGY OF A SMALL TRIBUTARY OF THE PLATEAU DE MANGUENI, NE NIGER -Jan Krause & Brigitta Schutt 9 PALAEOECOLOGY OF THE GIANT CATFISH (ARIUS GIGAS, ARIIDAE) IN HOLOCENE SAHARAN AND TROPICAL WEST AFRICAN WATERS -Helene Jousse & Wim Van Neer 10 NEOLITHIC DOMESTICATION AND PASTORALISM IN CENTRAL SAHARA: THE CATTLE NECROPOLIS OF MANKHOR (TADRART ALGERIENNE) -Michel Tauveron, Karl Heinz Striedter & Nadjib Ferhat 11 THE MICROSTRATIGRAPHY AND MICROMORPHOLOGY OF A HOLOCENE PALAEOLAKE IN SOUTHERN TUNISIA -Abdelhakim Abichou 12 DIFFERENT DIMENSIONS OF RECENT VEGETATION DYNAMICS OF NORTH AND WEST AFRICA -Brian Beckers & Brigitta Schutt 13 LANDMINES, DRUGS AND JUSTICE. THE RECENT HISTORY OF TWO SAHARAN MOUNTAINS (ADRAR DES IFORAS/MALI AND AIR MTS./NIGER) -Issa Ousseini, Aboubacar Adamou & Erhard Schulz 14 THE SAHELIAN AND SAHARAN DUNE SYSTEMS OF NIGER. A COMPARISON OF THEIR GRANULOMETRIC CHARACTERISTICS -Ibrahim Mamane Sani & Issa Ousseini