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## Authors and Affiliations

Alice Leplongeon<fnref n="1" />,<fnref n="2" />,<fnref n="3" /> ID · Eslem Ben Arous<fnref n="1" />,<fnref n="4" />,<fnref n="5" /> ID · Isis Mesfin<fnref n="1" />,<fnref n="6" />,⁷ ID ·

Hubert Forestier<fnref n="1" /> ID · Xavier Gallet<fnref n="1" /> · Christophe Griggo⁸ ID · Simon Puaud⁹ ID ·

Anne-Marie Sémah<fnref n="1" /> ID · Agueda Vialou<fnref n="1" /> ID · David Pleurdeau<fnref n="1" /> ·

Antoine Lourdeau<fnref n="1" /> ID

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Alice Leplongeon
alice.leplongeon@mnhn.fr

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<footnote n="1">¹ Research Unit Histoire naturelle des Humanités Préhistoriques (HNHP) 7194, CNRS, Université de Perpignan Via Domitia, Muséum national d'Histoire naturelle, Paris, France</footnote>

<footnote n="2">² Department of Anthropology, University of Connecticut, Storrs, CT, USA</footnote>

<footnote n="3">³ Centre for the Archaeological Research of Landscapes, University of Leuven, Leuven, Belgium</footnote>

<footnote n="4">⁴ Max Planck Institute of Geoanthropology (MPI-GEA), Jena, Germany</footnote>

<footnote n="5">⁵ Centro Nacional de Investigación sobre la Evolución Humana (CENIEH), Burgos, Spain</footnote>

<footnote n="6">⁶ Museo Nacional de Arqueología de Benguela, Benguela, Angola</footnote>
7 Palaeo-Research Institute, University of Johannesburg, Johannesburg, South Africa

8 EDYTEM UMR 5204 CNRS, Université Savoie Mont Blanc, Le Bourget-du-Lac, France

9 Centre de Recherche en Archéologie, Archéosciences, Histoire (UMR 6566 CReAAH), Rennes, France