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The Neanderthal Niche Space of Western Eurasia - Supplemental Material

Authors/Creators

  • 1. Aarhus University

Description

The data provided here are the supplemental information accompanying the journal article The Neanderthal Niche Space of Western Eurasia 145ka to 30ka ago by Yaworsky, Nielsen, & Nielsen. All analyses were performed in R v4.5.0 and are documented in the HTML document, Supplemental 9.

List of Supplemental Files:

  1. ROCEEH Archaeological Observations - File name: FaunalData_52923_NOANIMALS.csv
    1. Retrieved from Role of Culture in Early Expansions of Humans Out-of Africa Database (http://www.roceeh.net)
    2. Original PHP query is found in Supplemental 9. The zooarchaeological observations have been removed from the original PHP query.
  2. ROCEEH Dates Data - File name: Dates_Geog.csv
    1. Retrieved from Role of Culture in Early Expansions of Humans Out-of Africa Database (http://www.roceeh.net)
    2. Original PHP query is found in Supplemental 9. These are the Geolayer dates.
  3. ROCEEH Dates Data - File name: Dates_Assem.csv
    1. Retrieved from Role of Culture in Early Expansions of Humans Out-of Africa Database (http://www.roceeh.net)
    2. Original PHP query is found in Supplemental 9. These are the ArchLayer dates.
  4. ROCEEH Dates Data - File name: Dates_ArchLayer.csv
    1. Retrieved from Role of Culture in Early Expansions of Humans Out-of Africa Database (http://www.roceeh.net)
    2. Original PHP query is found in Supplemental 9. These are the Assemblage dates.
  5. Spatiotemporal Archaeological Observations - File name: ArchaeologicalData_V1.csv
    1. Derived from Supplemental 1 after removing observations that dated outside of the 145ka to 50ka year range, all NA values, and observations duplicated in time and space (1000-year range).
  6. Spatiotemporal Background Points - File name: AbsencePointData.csv
    1. Randomly generated background points. 100 random points were generated in each millennium.
  7. High-Resolution Spatiotemporal Predictions - File name: SDM_MainGIF.mp4
    1. High-resolution mp4 file showing the predictions of the Neanderthal niche space from 145ka to 30ka ago.
  8. Neanderthal Niche Space 145ka to 30ka ago- File name: Human_Niche_Size.csv
    1. Quantification of the Neanderthal niche space for each millennium.
  9. Analysis Markdown Document - File Name: NeanderEdgeMD_v5.html
    1. Markdown illustrating step-by-step the methods used to organize and analyze the data.
  10. Delta O18 Record - File name: LisieckiRaymod18O.csv
    1. Delta O18 Record from Lisiecki & Raymo, 2005.
    2. Used in Figure 1 of the publication to illustrate the relationship between Neanderthal niche size and Delta O18 values.
  11. Neanderthal Niche Space 350ka ago to Present - File name: Human_Niche_Size_350k.csv
    1. Neanderthal niche space estimates from 350ka to the present based on the model constructed around the 145ka to 50ka ago archaeological observations.
    2. Not discussed in the main publication.

The NeanderEDGE Project is funded by the Independent Research Fund Denmark (Danmarks Frie Forskningsfond) case number 9062-00027B.

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Related works

Is supplement to
Dataset: 10.1038/s41598-024-57490-4 (DOI)

References

  • Lisiecki and Raymo, "A Pliocene-Pleistocene Stack of 57 Globally Distributed Benthic Δ18O Records." DOI: 10.1029/2004PA001071
  • Role of Culture in Early Expansions of Humans Out-of Africa Database (http://www.roceeh.net)