Quantitative methods demonstrate that environment alone is an insufficient predictor of present-day language distributions in New Guinea

• Nicolas Antunes ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Nicolas Antunes, Wulf Schiefenhövel, Marian Vanhaeren

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Software, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: antunes@rgzm.de

  Affiliations Römisch-Germanisches Zentralmuseum (RGZM), Leibniz-Forschungsinstitut für Archäologie, Mainz, Germany, CNRS, MCC, De la Préhistoire à l’Actuel: Culture, Environnement et Anthropologie (PACEA), Univ. Bordeaux, Pessac, France, Department of Archaeogenetics, Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History, Jena, Germany

  http://orcid.org/0000-0002-8894-2283

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• Wulf Schiefenhövel ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Nicolas Antunes, Wulf Schiefenhövel, Marian Vanhaeren

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

  Affiliation Max-Planck-Institute for Ornithology, Seewiesen, Germany

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• Francesco d’Errico,

  Roles Funding acquisition, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations CNRS, MCC, De la Préhistoire à l’Actuel: Culture, Environnement et Anthropologie (PACEA), Univ. Bordeaux, Pessac, France, SFF Centre for Early Sapiens Behaviour (SapienCE), University of Bergen, Bergen, Norway

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• William E. Banks,

  Roles Methodology, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations CNRS, MCC, De la Préhistoire à l’Actuel: Culture, Environnement et Anthropologie (PACEA), Univ. Bordeaux, Pessac, France, Biodiversity Institute, University of Kansas, Lawrence, Indiana, United States of America

  http://orcid.org/0000-0003-1835-6315

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• Marian Vanhaeren

  Contributed equally to this work with: Nicolas Antunes, Wulf Schiefenhövel, Marian Vanhaeren

  Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Supervision, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation CNRS, MCC, De la Préhistoire à l’Actuel: Culture, Environnement et Anthropologie (PACEA), Univ. Bordeaux, Pessac, France

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