Modelling Neanderthals’ dispersal routes from Caucasus towards east

• Elham Ghasidian ,

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

  * E-mail: ghasidian@neanderthal.de

  Affiliations Neanderthal Museum, Mettmann, Germany, DiyarMehr Institute for Palaeolithic Research, Kermanshah, Iran, Institute for Prehistoric Archaeology, University of Cologne, Koln, Germany, Institute of Geography, University of Cologne, Cologne, Germany

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7645-774X

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• Anooshe Kafash,

  Roles Conceptualization, Methodology, Software, Validation, Visualization, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Environmental Science, Faculty of Natural Resources, University of Tehran, Tehran, Iran

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• Martin Kehl,

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

  Affiliations Institute for Prehistoric Archaeology, University of Cologne, Koln, Germany, Institute of Geography, University of Cologne, Cologne, Germany

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• Masoud Yousefi,

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Methodology, Software, Validation, Visualization, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Environmental Science, Faculty of Natural Resources, University of Tehran, Tehran, Iran

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• Saman Heydari-Guran

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

  Affiliations Neanderthal Museum, Mettmann, Germany, DiyarMehr Institute for Palaeolithic Research, Kermanshah, Iran, Institute for Prehistoric Archaeology, University of Cologne, Koln, Germany, Institute of Geography, University of Cologne, Cologne, Germany

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