Human occupations at the Alpysbaev Cave (western Tian Shan): Bioarchaeological insights from the Iron Age burial cluster

• Abay Namen ,

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Investigation, Supervision, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft

  * E-mail: abay.namen@nu.edu.kz (AN); iovita@nyu.edu (RI)

  Affiliations Department of Sociology and Anthropology, School of Sciences and Humanities, Nazarbayev University, Astana, Kazakhstan, Early Prehistory and Quaternary Ecology, Department of Geosciences, University of Tübingen, Tübingen, Germany

  https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2990-5084

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• Saine C. Hernandez Burgos ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Saine C. Hernandez Burgos

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

  Affiliation Center for the Study of Human Origins, Department of Anthropology, New York University, New York, United States of America

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• Aristeidis Varis,

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

  Affiliations Early Prehistory and Quaternary Ecology, Department of Geosciences, University of Tübingen, Tübingen, Germany, Institute for Archaeological Sciences, Department of Geosciences, University of Tübingen, Tübingen, Germany

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• Emily Coco,

  Roles Investigation, Software, Visualization, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Center for the Study of Human Origins, Department of Anthropology, New York University, New York, United States of America

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• Rachel Kalisher,

  Roles Methodology, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Center for the Study of Human Origins, Department of Anthropology, New York University, New York, United States of America

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7765-2352

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• Emily Gaul,

  Roles Formal analysis, Investigation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Archaeo- and Palaeogenetics, Institute for Archaeological Sciences, Department of Geosciences, University of Tübingen, Tübingen, Germany

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• Guido Alberto Gnecchi-Ruscone,

  Roles Formal analysis, Investigation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Senckenberg Centre for Human Evolution and Palaeoenvironment at the University of Tübingen, Tübingen, Germany

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• Maria A. Spyrou,

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

  Affiliations Archaeo- and Palaeogenetics, Institute for Archaeological Sciences, Department of Geosciences, University of Tübingen, Tübingen, Germany, Senckenberg Centre for Human Evolution and Palaeoenvironment at the University of Tübingen, Tübingen, Germany

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• Cosimo Posth,

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

  Affiliations Archaeo- and Palaeogenetics, Institute for Archaeological Sciences, Department of Geosciences, University of Tübingen, Tübingen, Germany, Senckenberg Centre for Human Evolution and Palaeoenvironment at the University of Tübingen, Tübingen, Germany

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• Susanne Lindauer,

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

  Affiliation Curt-Engelhorn-Centre for Archaeometry, Mannheim, Germany

  https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5363-2755

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• David Naumann,

  Roles Investigation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Institute for Archaeological Sciences, Department of Geosciences, University of Tübingen, Tübingen, Germany

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6498-6708

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• Scott A. Williams,

  Roles Methodology, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Center for the Study of Human Origins, Department of Anthropology, New York University, New York, United States of America

  https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7860-8962

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• Zhaken Taimagambetov,

  Roles Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation National Museum of the Republic of Kazakhstan, Astana, Kazakhstan

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• Radu Iovita

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Supervision, Validation, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: abay.namen@nu.edu.kz (AN); iovita@nyu.edu (RI)

  Affiliations Early Prehistory and Quaternary Ecology, Department of Geosciences, University of Tübingen, Tübingen, Germany, Center for the Study of Human Origins, Department of Anthropology, New York University, New York, United States of America

  https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9531-1159

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