Spatiotemporal evolution and clustering patterns of settlements from the Neolithic to the Bronze Age (9000–3000 BP) in the Songshan Mountain region, China

• Lijie Yan ,

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Methodology, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: yanlj@igs-han.cn (LY), wangxia@igs-has.cn (XW)

  Affiliation Institute of Geography, Henan Academy of Sciences, Zhengzhou, China

  https://orcid.org/0009-0007-8835-1452

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• Xia Wang ,

  Roles Conceptualization, Writing – original draft

  * E-mail: yanlj@igs-han.cn (LY), wangxia@igs-has.cn (XW)

  Affiliation Institute of Geography, Henan Academy of Sciences, Zhengzhou, China

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• Li Zhang,

  Roles Formal analysis

  Affiliation Institute of Geography, Henan Academy of Sciences, Zhengzhou, China

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• Fei Teng

  Roles Data curation

  Affiliation Institute of Geography, Henan Academy of Sciences, Zhengzhou, China

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