Paleolithic occupation of arid Central Asia in the Middle Pleistocene

• Emma M. Finestone ,

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

  * E-mail: finestone@shh.mpg.de

  Affiliations Department of Anthropology, The Cleveland Museum of Natural History, Cleveland, OH, United States of America, Department of Archaeology, Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History, Jena, Germany

  https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9035-6139

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• Paul S. Breeze,

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

  Affiliation Department of Geography, Kings College London, London, United Kingdom

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• Sebastian F. M. Breitenbach,

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

  Affiliation Department of Geography and Environmental Sciences, Northumbria University, Newcastle upon Tyne, United Kingdom

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• Nick Drake,

  Roles Conceptualization, Methodology, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Department of Archaeology, Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History, Jena, Germany, Department of Geography, Kings College London, London, United Kingdom

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• Laura Bergmann,

  Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Visualization, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Physical Geography, Catholic University of Eichstätt-Ingolstadt, Eichstätt, Germany

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• Farhod Maksudov,

  Roles Conceptualization, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation National Center of Archaeology, Uzbekistan Academy of Sciences, Tashkent, Uzbekistan

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• Akmal Muhammadiyev,

  Roles Conceptualization, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation National Center of Archaeology, Uzbekistan Academy of Sciences, Tashkent, Uzbekistan

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• Pete Scott,

  Roles Investigation, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Centre for Microscopy, Characterisation and Analysis, The University of Western Australia, Perth, Australia

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1352-5901

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• Yanjun Cai,

  Roles Investigation, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Institute of Global Environmental Change, Xi’an Jiaotong University, Xi’an, China

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• Arina M. Khatsenovich,

  Roles Investigation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Institute of Archaeology and Ethnography of the Siberian Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Novosibirsk, Russia

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• Evgeny P. Rybin,

  Roles Investigation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Institute of Archaeology and Ethnography of the Siberian Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Novosibirsk, Russia

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• Gernot Nehrke,

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

  Affiliation Alfred-Wegener-Institut Helmholtz-Zentrum für Polar- und Meeresforschung, Bremerhaven, Germany

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• Nicole Boivin,

  Roles Conceptualization, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Department of Archaeology, Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History, Jena, Germany, School of Social Science, University of Queensland, Brisbane, Australia, Department of Anthropology and Archaeology, University of Calgary, Calgary, Canada, Department of Anthropology, National Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC, United States of America

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• Michael Petraglia

  Roles Conceptualization, Methodology, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Department of Archaeology, Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History, Jena, Germany, School of Social Science, University of Queensland, Brisbane, Australia, Human Origins Program, National Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC, United States of America, Australian Research Centre for Human Evolution, Griffith University, Brisbane, Australia

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