A Paleolithic bird figurine from the Lingjing site, Henan, China

• Zhanyang Li,

  Roles Data curation, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Project administration, Supervision

  Affiliation Institute of Cultural Heritage, Shandong University, Qingdao, Shandong Province, P.R. of China

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• Luc Doyon ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Luc Doyon, Francesco d’Errico

  Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Institute of Cultural Heritage, Shandong University, Qingdao, Shandong Province, P.R. of China, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique CNRS UMR5199 PACEA, Université de Bordeaux, Pessac, Nouvelle-Aquitaine, France

  http://orcid.org/0000-0001-7163-6186

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• Hui Fang ,

  Roles Funding acquisition, Project administration, Resources

  * E-mail: francesco.derrico@u-bordeaux.fr (FdE); fangh@sdu.edu.cn (HF)

  Affiliation Institute of Cultural Heritage, Shandong University, Qingdao, Shandong Province, P.R. of China

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• Ronan Ledevin ,

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

  ¶‡ These authors also contributed equally to this work.

  Affiliation Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique CNRS UMR5199 PACEA, Université de Bordeaux, Pessac, Nouvelle-Aquitaine, France

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• Alain Queffelec ,

  Roles Formal analysis, Investigation, Software, Writing – review & editing

  ¶‡ These authors also contributed equally to this work.

  Affiliation Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique CNRS UMR5199 PACEA, Université de Bordeaux, Pessac, Nouvelle-Aquitaine, France

  http://orcid.org/0000-0002-9763-7600

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• Emeline Raguin ,

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

  ¶‡ These authors also contributed equally to this work.

  Affiliation Department of Structural Biology, Weizmann Institute of Science, Rehovot, Israel

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• Francesco d’Errico

  Contributed equally to this work with: Luc Doyon, Francesco d’Errico

  Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: francesco.derrico@u-bordeaux.fr (FdE); fangh@sdu.edu.cn (HF)

  Current address: CNRS UMR5199 –PACEA, Université de Bordeaux, Allée Geoffroy Saint Hilaire, Pessac, France

  Affiliations Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique CNRS UMR5199 PACEA, Université de Bordeaux, Pessac, Nouvelle-Aquitaine, France, SFF Centre for Early Sapiens Behaviour (SapienCE), University of Bergen, Bergen, Norway

  http://orcid.org/0000-0002-2422-3079

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