Tracking the emergence of the Upper Palaeolithic in western Asia and Europe: A Multiple Correspondence Analysis of Protoaurignacian and Southern Ahmarian lithics

• Jacopo Gennai ,

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft

  * E-mail: jacopo.gennai@unipi.it (JG); armando.falcucci@uni-tuebingen.de (AF); v.niochet@arch.leidenuniv.nl (VN); m.a.soressi@arch.leidenuniv.nl (MS)

  Affiliation Department of Civilisations and Forms of Knowledge, University of Pisa, Pisa, Italy

  https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2662-2855

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• Armando Falcucci ,

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Validation, Writing – original draft

  * E-mail: jacopo.gennai@unipi.it (JG); armando.falcucci@uni-tuebingen.de (AF); v.niochet@arch.leidenuniv.nl (VN); m.a.soressi@arch.leidenuniv.nl (MS)

  Affiliation Department of Geosciences, Prehistory and Archaeological Sciences Research Unit, Eberhard Karls University of Tübingen, Tübingen, Germany

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3255-1005

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• Vincent Niochet ,

  Roles Formal analysis, Investigation, Writing – original draft

  * E-mail: jacopo.gennai@unipi.it (JG); armando.falcucci@uni-tuebingen.de (AF); v.niochet@arch.leidenuniv.nl (VN); m.a.soressi@arch.leidenuniv.nl (MS)

  Affiliation Faculty of Archaeology, Leiden University, Leiden, The Netherlands

  https://orcid.org/0009-0006-6264-7530

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• Marco Peresani,

  Roles Funding acquisition, Resources, Writing – original draft

  Affiliations Department of Humanities, University of Ferrara, Ferrara, Italy, Institute of Environmental Geology and Geoengineering, National Research Council, Stratigraphic, Milano, Italy

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• Jürgen Richter,

  Roles Funding acquisition, Resources, Writing – original draft

  Affiliation Institute of Prehistoric Archaeology, University of Cologne, Cologne, Germany

  https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2793-7867

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• Marie Soressi

  Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Resources, Writing – original draft

  * E-mail: jacopo.gennai@unipi.it (JG); armando.falcucci@uni-tuebingen.de (AF); v.niochet@arch.leidenuniv.nl (VN); m.a.soressi@arch.leidenuniv.nl (MS)

  Affiliation Faculty of Archaeology, Leiden University, Leiden, The Netherlands

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