Published June 20, 2025 | Version 1.2

The Human Niche Space of Post-LGM Late Upper Paleolithic Europe - Supplemental Material

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Description

The data provided here are the supplemental information accompanying the journal article The Human Niche Space of Post-LGM Late Upper Paleolithic Europe: The Effects of Climate and Population Growth on Human Land Use by Yaworsky, Hussain, & Riede. All analyses were performed in R v4.5.0 and are documented in the HTML document, Supplemental 4.

Version 1.2 of the Analysis Markdown Document incoporates changes made to functions within the package ENMeval.

List of Supplemental Files:

  1. Spatiotemporal Archaeological Observations - File name: Archaeologicaldata_v1.csv
    1. Archaeological observations derived from Kretschmer (2015) and supplemented with additional observations (see main paper for details).
  2. Summed Probability Estimate for Population Estimation - File name: Population_SPD2.csv
    1. Summed probability distribution estimating changes in relative population size across Europe from 22ka ago to 9.1ka ago using data from the P3K14C database (Bird et al, 2022; see Supplemental 4 for details).
  3. Spatiotemporal Background Points - File name: AbsencePointData.csv
    1. Randomly generated background points. 100 random points were generated in each millennium.
  4. Analysis Markdown Document - File Name: CLIOARCH_MD_v1.2.html
    1. Markdown illustrating step-by-step the methods used to organize and analyze the data.
  5. High-Resolution Spatiotemporal Predictions - File name: SDM_MainGIF.mp4
    1. High-resolution mp4 file showing the predictions of the potential climate niche space for humans from 22ka to 9.1ka ago.
  6. Potential Niche Space 22ka to 9.1ka ago- File name: Human_Niche_Size.csv
    1. Quantification of the potential climate niche space for each century.

The Climate data are not provided due to their size but are sourced from Karger et al (2023) and are accessible here (https://chelsa-climate.org/).

 

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Funding

European Commission
CLIOARCH - Cliodynamic archaeology: Computational approaches to Final Palaeolithic/earliest Mesolithic archaeology and climate change 817564

References

  • Kretschmer, Inga. "Demographische Untersuchungen zu Bevölkerungsdichten, Mobilität und Landnutzungsmustern im späten Jungpaläolithikum." Kölner Studien zur Prähistorischen Archäologie 6. Verlag Marie Leidorf, 2015.
  • Karger, Dirk Nikolaus, Michael P. Nobis, Signe Normand, Catherine H. Graham, and Niklaus E. Zimmermann. "CHELSA-TraCE21k – High-Resolution (1 Km) Downscaled Transient Temperature and Precipitation Data since the Last Glacial Maximum." Climate of the Past 19, no. 2 (February 20, 2023): 439–56. https://doi.org/10.5194/cp-19-439-2023.
  • Bird, Darcy, Lux Miranda, Marc Vander Linden, Erick Robinson, R. Kyle Bocinsky, Chris Nicholson, José M. Capriles, et al. "P3k14c, a Synthetic Global Database of Archaeological Radiocarbon Dates." Scientific Data 9, no. 1 (December 2022): 27. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41597-022-01118-7.