{"paper_id":"3293c94c-b4cd-416f-bfcb-ea92c4a5219c","body_text":"Preprint\nARPHA Preprints\nhttps://doi.org/10.3897/arphapreprints.e189105 (19 Feb 2026)\nhttps://doi.org/10.3897/arphapreprints.e189105 (19 Feb 2026)\nPublished in: Fossil Record https://doi.org/10.3897/fr.29.188906\nOther versions:\n- Preprint InfoPreprint Info\n- CiteCite\n- MetricsMetrics\n- CommentComment\n- RelatedRelated\n- CitedCited\nARPHA Preprints\ndoi:\n10.3897/arphapreprints.e189105\nFirst posted\n19 Feb 2026\nAuthors\nJasper Ponstein\n- Corresponding author\nMuseum für Naturkunde, Berlin, Germany\nHet Nationaal Oertijdmuseum, Boxtel, Netherlands\nInstitut Català de Paleoecologia Humana i Evolució Social (IPHES-CERCA), Tarragona, Spain\nDepartament d’Història I Història de l’Art, Universitat Rovira I Virgili, Tarragona, Spain\nLaan van Avegoor 15, 6955 BD, Ellecom, Netherlands\nHet Nationaal Oertijdmuseum, Boxtel, Netherlands\nDepartment of Earth Sciences, Faculty of Geosciences, Utrecht University, Utrecht, Netherlands\nConflict of interest\nThe authors have declared that no competing interests exist.\nSupporting agencies\nThe research of H-AB is funded by projects PID2021-122533NB-I00 and PID2024-157622NB-I00 from the Spanish Ministry of Science and Innovation (MCIN/AEI/10.13039/501100011033/FEDER ‘Una manera de hacer Europa’), by project GAČR 21-33751S of the Czech Science Foundation, and by the CERCA Program/Generalitat de Catalunya. H-AB belongs to the Consolidated Research Group ‘Paleoecology of Pliocene and Pleistocene and Human Dispersals (Pal-Hum)’, funded by projects 2021SGR-1238 (AGAUR-Generalitat de Catalunya) and 2023PFR-URV-01238 (URV). The IPHES-CERCA has received financial support through the “María de Maeztu” program for Units of Excellence (CEX2024-01485-M/funded by MICIU/AEI/10.13039/501100011033).\nThis is an open access preprint distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY 4.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.","source_license":"CC-BY-4.0","license_restricted":false}