The earliest settlers of Mesoamerica date back to the late Pleistocene

• Wolfgang Stinnesbeck ,

  Roles Funding acquisition, Investigation, Supervision, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: wolfgang.stinnesbeck@geow.uni-heidelberg.de

  Affiliation Institut für Geowissenschaften, Universität Heidelberg, Im Neuenheimer Feld 234, Heidelberg, Germany

  http://orcid.org/0000-0002-5265-3527

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• Julia Becker,

  Roles Formal analysis, Methodology, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Institut für Meteorologie und Klimaforschung, Karlsruher Institut für Technologie, H.-v.-Helmholtz-Platz 1, Leopoldshafen, Germany

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• Fabio Hering,

  Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Methodology, Visualization, Writing – original draft

  Affiliation Institut für Geowissenschaften, Universität Heidelberg, Im Neuenheimer Feld 234, Heidelberg, Germany

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• Eberhard Frey,

  Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Writing – original draft

  Affiliation Staatliches Museum für Naturkunde Karlsruhe, Geowissenschaftliche Abteilung, Erbprinzstrasse 13, Karlsuhe

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• Arturo González González,

  Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Investigation

  Affiliation Museo del Desierto, Carlos Abedrop Dávila 3745, Nuevo Centro Metropolitano de Saltillo, Saltillo, Coahuila, Mexico

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• Jens Fohlmeister,

  Roles Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology

  Affiliation Institut für Erd- und Umweltwissenschaften, Universität Potsdam, Karl-Liebknecht-Str. 24, Potsdam, Germany

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• Sarah Stinnesbeck,

  Roles Data curation, Investigation, Visualization, Writing – original draft

  Affiliation Staatliches Museum für Naturkunde Karlsruhe, Geowissenschaftliche Abteilung, Erbprinzstrasse 13, Karlsuhe

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• Norbert Frank,

  Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Methodology, Supervision

  Affiliation Institut für Umweltphysik, Universität Heidelberg, Im Neuenheimer Feld 229, Heidelberg, Germany

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• Alejandro Terrazas Mata,

  Roles Data curation, Investigation, Methodology

  Affiliation Área de Prehistoria y Evolución del Instituto de Investigaciones Antropológicas de la Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México (UNAM), Mexico

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• Martha Elena Benavente,

  Roles Data curation, Investigation, Methodology

  Affiliation Área de Prehistoria y Evolución del Instituto de Investigaciones Antropológicas de la Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México (UNAM), Mexico

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• Jerónimo Avilés Olguín,

  Roles Data curation, Investigation

  Affiliation Instituto de la Prehistoria de América, Carretera federal 307, Solidaridad, Solidaridad, Quintana Roo, Mexico

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• Eugenio Aceves Núñez,

  Roles Data curation, Investigation, Methodology

  Affiliation Instituto de la Prehistoria de América, Carretera federal 307, Solidaridad, Solidaridad, Quintana Roo, Mexico

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• Patrick Zell,

  Roles Visualization, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Hessisches Landesmuseum Darmstadt, Friedensplatz 1, Darmstadt, Germany

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• Michael Deininger

  Roles Formal analysis, Methodology, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation UCD School of Earth Sciences, University College Dublin, Belfield, Dublin 4, Ireland

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