ABSTRACT
It is with deep regret to report that ‘Palaeoecology of Africa (PoA)’ lost two of its long-time editorial board members: the German-born, US-American geographer, palaeoecologist and archaeologist, Karl W. Butzer in 2016; and the French palaeo- biologist (diatom specialist), palaeoclimatologist and palaeohydrologist, Françoise Gasse in 2014. Both supported and accompanied over many years the long-term success story of PoA. Founded in 1966 by Professor Eduard M. van Zinderen Bakker (1907–2002) and assisted by Professor Joey Coetzee (1921–2007, see Palaeoecology of Africa, Vol. 29, 2009) the PoA series has consistently published interdisciplinary scientific papers on landscape evolution and on former environments of the African continent as well as papers on changes in climate and in vegetation cover interconnected to environmental dynamics from the Cainozoic up to the present. Recently, the PoA also broadened its horizons to the steadily growing influence of humans on many of the field sites studied that has shaped the scientific profile of the series.
