Acknowledgements
The research was financed by the Federal State Mecklenburg-Vorpommern (project EMAU 13(95, 96)1997) and was supervised by Konrad Billwitz, Geographical Institute of Greifswald University, Greifswald, Germany, Hannelore Rabe, ibid., is thanked for preparing the pollen samples. AMS 14C-dating was performed by the Poznań Radiocarbon Laboratory (Poznań, Poland) and the R.J. van de Graaff Laboratory (Utrecht, The Netherlands). The author wants to thank an anonymous reviewer for valuable comments on the text.
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