Favaretto, S., A. Asioli, A. Miola, A. Piva.2008. Preboreal climatic oscillations recorded by pollen and foraminifera in the Southern Adriatic Sea. Quaternary International, vol. 190, pp. 89-102. Preboreal climatic oscillations recorded by pollen and foraminifera in the Southern Adriatic Sea Sonia Favaretto 1 , Alessandra Asioli 2 , Antonella Miola 3 * and Andrea Piva 4 1 Department of Geography, Università di Padova, via del Santo 26, Padova, Italy 2 Istituto Geoscienze e Georisorse, CNR, Sede di Padova, via Giotto, 1, Padova, Italy 3 Department of Biology, Università di Padova, via U. Bassi 58/B, 35100 Padova, Italy, fax:(39)- 049-827 6260, e-mail: antonella.miola@unipd.it 4 Istituto Scienze Marine, CNR, Sede di Bologna, via Gobetti, 101, Bologna, Italy *corresponding author 1