Abstract
It is with great pleasure that we dedicate this issue of Quaternary International to the career of Gary Haynes. Throughout his career Gary Haynes' professional interests have spanned archaeology, anthropology, paleoanthropology, and ecology in southern Africa, the Americas, Eurasia, and Australia. Through interdisciplinary research on taphonomy, mammal behavior, Pleistocene human dispersals, megamammal extinctions, hunter-gatherer behavior, and human ecology, Gary's research has particularly advanced our understanding of the formation and context of the archaeological record. His wide-ranging interests are represented in the papers published in this issue. In the following pages we provide the context for Gary's contributions to taphonomic studies, Pleistocene human dispersals and megafaunal extinctions, and human ecology. Finally, we review the contributions of this issue in the context of the interdisciplinary work of Gary Haynes.