Acknowledgements
The studied core was obtained with the help of Fabian Rösch, Max Markert, and Gegeensuvd Tserendorj. Technical support in the laboratory was provided by Tanja Märkle, Gegeensuvd Tserendorj, Stella Tomasi, Dr Marion Sillmann, Roza Schneider, and Eva Klimek. The authors thank the forestry district Baiersbronn/Schönmünzach for technical help with the fieldwork especially for snow clearing of the lanes, and Dr Susanne Lindauer and Dr Ronny Friedrich, Curt-Engelhorn-Zentrum Archäometrie, Mannheim, for repeating several of the radiocarbon datings and thus helping to achieve better precision in the chronology of this pollen record.
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