The discovery of an in situ Neanderthal remain in the Bawa Yawan Rockshelter, West-Central Zagros Mountains, Kermanshah

• Saman Heydari-Guran ,

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Software, Supervision, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: heydari-guran@neanderthal.de

  Affiliations Stiftung Neanderthal Museum, Mettmann, Germany, Department of Prehistoric Archaeology University of Cologne, Cologne, Germany, DiyarMehr Centre for Palaeolithic Research, Kermanshah, Iran

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7668-8804

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• Stefano Benazzi,

  Roles Data curation, Investigation, Methodology, Software, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Department of Cultural Heritage, University of Bologna, Bologna, Italy, Department of Human Evolution, Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Leipzig, Germany

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• Sahra Talamo,

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

  Affiliations Department of Human Evolution, Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Leipzig, Germany, Department of Chemistry G. Ciamician, Alma Mater Studiorum, University of Bologna, Bologna, Italy

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• Elham Ghasidian,

  Roles Investigation, Methodology, Writing – original draft

  Affiliations Stiftung Neanderthal Museum, Mettmann, Germany, Department of Prehistoric Archaeology University of Cologne, Cologne, Germany

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• Nemat Hariri,

  Roles Data curation, Investigation

  Affiliations Department of Prehistoric Archaeology University of Cologne, Cologne, Germany, Department of Archaeology, University of Mohaghegh Ardabili University, Ardabil, Iran

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• Gregorio Oxilia,

  Roles Methodology, Software, Visualization

  Affiliation Department of Cultural Heritage, University of Bologna, Bologna, Italy

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• Samran Asiabani,

  Roles Visualization

  Affiliations DiyarMehr Centre for Palaeolithic Research, Kermanshah, Iran, Department of Architecture, Faculty of Art and Architecture, Bu-Ali Sina University, Hamedan, Iran

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• Faramarz Azizi,

  Roles Investigation, Visualization

  Affiliation DiyarMehr Centre for Palaeolithic Research, Kermanshah, Iran

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• Rahmat Naderi,

  Roles Investigation

  Affiliation DiyarMehr Centre for Palaeolithic Research, Kermanshah, Iran

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• Reza Safaierad,

  Roles Investigation, Writing – original draft

  Affiliation Department of Physical Geography, University of Tehran, Tehran, Iran

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8295-2560

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• Jean-Jacques Hublin,

  Roles Methodology

  Affiliations Department of Human Evolution, Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Leipzig, Germany, Collège de France, 11 Place Marcelin Berthelot, Paris, France

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• Robert A. Foley,

  Roles Data curation, Investigation, Writing – original draft

  Affiliation Leverhulme Centre for Human Evolutionary Studies, Department of Archaeology, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, United Kingdom

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• Marta M. Lahr

  Roles Writing – original draft

  Affiliation Leverhulme Centre for Human Evolutionary Studies, Department of Archaeology, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, United Kingdom

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