Figure 1.

Location of the main palaeo-records in Africa. Squares: palaeo-records explicitly mentioned in the text (numbers as in table 1). Names and description in the electronic supplementary material, table S2. Mixed proxies involved a combination of pollen, molecular proxies and/or diatoms. Circles: records from other palaeo-record compilations mentioned in the text [24,31]. Main water bodies during the African humid period obtained from [32]. Present land cover based on [33]. African regions based on [25].