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https://doi.org/10.3897/arphapreprints.e189105 (19 Feb 2026)
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10.3897/arphapreprints.e189105
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19 Feb 2026
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Jasper Ponstein
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Museum für Naturkunde, Berlin, Germany
Het Nationaal Oertijdmuseum, Boxtel, Netherlands
Institut Català de Paleoecologia Humana i Evolució Social (IPHES-CERCA), Tarragona, Spain
Departament d’Història I Història de l’Art, Universitat Rovira I Virgili, Tarragona, Spain
Laan van Avegoor 15, 6955 BD, Ellecom, Netherlands
Het Nationaal Oertijdmuseum, Boxtel, Netherlands
Department of Earth Sciences, Faculty of Geosciences, Utrecht University, Utrecht, Netherlands
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The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.
Supporting agencies
The research of H-AB is funded by projects PID2021-122533NB-I00 and PID2024-157622NB-I00 from the Spanish Ministry of Science and Innovation (MCIN/AEI/10.13039/501100011033/FEDER ‘Una manera de hacer Europa’), by project GAČR 21-33751S of the Czech Science Foundation, and by the CERCA Program/Generalitat de Catalunya. H-AB belongs to the Consolidated Research Group ‘Paleoecology of Pliocene and Pleistocene and Human Dispersals (Pal-Hum)’, funded by projects 2021SGR-1238 (AGAUR-Generalitat de Catalunya) and 2023PFR-URV-01238 (URV). The IPHES-CERCA has received financial support through the “María de Maeztu” program for Units of Excellence (CEX2024-01485-M/funded by MICIU/AEI/10.13039/501100011033).
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