Dr. Mirosław Makohonienko obtained his Ph.D. degree in Earth Sciences from Nicolaus Copernicus University in Toruń, Poland, in 1998. He is a geologist and archaeologist specialised in Quaternary palaeoecology, biogeography, and environmental archaeology. His main interest concerns the history of vegetation changes, natural and cultural landscape development, and man-environment interactions. In 1992-199,3 he obtaineda research scholarship in the Quaternary Department of Lund University, Sweden. In 1994, he worked at Christian Albrechts University in Kiel, Germany, in the Institute of Pre- and Protohistoric Archaeology. In the years 1998-2001, he obtained a scholarship at Kyoto University andthe International Research Center for Japanese Studies in Kyoto, Japan. In 2005 was a research fellow in IRCJS under the guidance of Professor Yoshinori Yasuda. In that time, he participated in numerous expeditions in East Asia – in China, Korea, and Japan. His habilitation thesis, written in 2009, concerned natural and anthropogenic vegetation changes in north-east China during the Holocene. He isthe author or co-author of over 150 scientific articles and chapters in monographs, author of four books, and co-editor of several monographs. Co-founder of the Association of Environmental Archaeology in Poland, twice elected as its president. He organized over 20 domestic and several international conferences dedicated to environmental changes. Presently, he hasthe position of professor at Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznań. Head of the Department of Quaternary Geology and Palaeogeography and deputy-director of the Institute of Geoecology and Geoinformation at the Faculty of Geographical and Geological Sciences