Were climatic forcings the main driver for mid-holocene changes in settlement dynamics on the Varamin Plain (Central Iranian Plateau)?

• Fabian Kirsten ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Fabian Kirsten, Anne Dallmeyer

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

  * E-mail: fabian.kirsten@fu-berlin.de (FK); anne.dallmeyer@mpimet.mpg.de (AD)

  Affiliation Freie Universität Berlin, Division of Physical Geography, Berlin, Germany

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4813-3713

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• Anne Dallmeyer ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Fabian Kirsten, Anne Dallmeyer

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

  * E-mail: fabian.kirsten@fu-berlin.de (FK); anne.dallmeyer@mpimet.mpg.de (AD)

  Affiliation Max Planck Institute for Meteorology, Hamburg, Germany

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3270-610X

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• Reinhard Bernbeck,

  Roles Funding acquisition, Project administration, Resources, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Freie Universität Berlin, Institute of Near Eastern Archaeology, Berlin, Germany

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• Thomas Böhmer,

  Roles Investigation, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Alfred-Wegener-Institute for Polar and Marine Research (AWI), Postdam, Germany

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• Robert Busch,

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

  Affiliation Freie Universität Berlin, Division of Physical Geography, Berlin, Germany

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• Morteza Hessari,

  Roles Investigation, Resources

  Affiliation Cultural Heritage and Tourism Research Institute, Tehran, Iran

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• Susan Pollock,

  Roles Funding acquisition, Project administration, Resources, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Freie Universität Berlin, Institute of Near Eastern Archaeology, Berlin, Germany

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• Brigitta Schütt

  Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Freie Universität Berlin, Division of Physical Geography, Berlin, Germany

  https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5644-9104

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