The Last Glacial Maximum in Europe – State of the Art in Geoscience and Archaeology.

From the 20th to 22nd of March 2019, two of us (AM and CM) organized a workshop entitled “The Last Glacial Maximum in Europe – State of knowledge in Geosciences and Archaeology” at Schloss Wiesenthau in the vicinity of Erlangen, generously funded by the Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg. Forty scientists from Austria, Belgium, Canada, Czech Republic, France, Germany, Hungary, Italy, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Russia, Serbia, Spain, Switzerland, and Ukraine came together to discuss the current state of knowledge on the Last Glacial Maximum (LGM) in different disciplines and regions. About 30 and 20 years after the editions of “The World at 18.000 PB” and “Hunters of the Golden Age”, respectively, the aim of the workshop was to refresh discussions about relations between cultural phenomena and environmental change around this period based on advancements in Geosciences and Archaeology across Europe. The workshop allowed identifying subjects, paths, and perspectives for future research. This special issue is dedicated to disseminate the results initiated during this meeting. Before presenting in short the contributions of this issue, some explanations regarding cultural and environmental terms shall be given, to make the contributions accessible for people from both communities, otherwise maybe not familiar with these terms.