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Funding Information:
First of all, the authors would like to thank the Lower Saxony State Ministry of Science and Culture ( MWK ) for the generous funding of the Project Schöningen, that includes excavation and research. Special thanks are for the discoverer and long-term director of the excavation, Hartmut Thieme, and for the technician Peter Pfarr. We are also grateful to the excavation team formed by Wolfgang Mertens, Dennis Mennella, Wolfgang Berkemer, Neil Haycock, Bernard Köhler, Martin Kursch, Jörg Neumann-Giesen and Cordula Schwarz for the important work they do in recovering and documenting the finds at Schöningen. F.A. research was granted by the post-doctoral project “Il contributo dell'icnologia ai siti geo-archeologici del Pleistocene” at Sapienza University of Rome ( AR 008/2018 ) and by doctoral fellowships by the University of Tübingen, Senckenberg Center for Human Evolution and Paleoecology ( 2019–2022 ). B.U. thanks the German Science Foundation (DFG: UR25/11–1 , project number: 350769604 ) for funding this study. We thank Annabell Rickert and Luisa Geilhausen for valuable assistance with laboratory work and Lisa Brogmus for pollen calculations and diagram construction. Maddy McCartin kindly checked and polished our English text. Last but not least, we are sincerely grateful to the journal editor Danielle Schreve and to the two anonymous reviewers for their careful reading of the manuscript and for their valuable observations.

Funding Information:
First of all, the authors would like to thank the Lower Saxony State Ministry of Science and Culture (MWK) for the generous funding of the Project Schöningen, that includes excavation and research. Special thanks are for the discoverer and long-term director of the excavation, Hartmut Thieme, and for the technician Peter Pfarr. We are also grateful to the excavation team formed by Wolfgang Mertens, Dennis Mennella, Wolfgang Berkemer, Neil Haycock, Bernard Köhler, Martin Kursch, Jörg Neumann-Giesen and Cordula Schwarz for the important work they do in recovering and documenting the finds at Schöningen. F.A. research was granted by the post-doctoral project “Il contributo dell'icnologia ai siti geo-archeologici del Pleistocene” at Sapienza University of Rome (AR 008/2018) and by doctoral fellowships by the University of Tübingen, Senckenberg Center for Human Evolution and Paleoecology (2019–2022). B.U. thanks the German Science Foundation (DFG: UR25/11–1, project number: 350769604) for funding this study. We thank Annabell Rickert and Luisa Geilhausen for valuable assistance with laboratory work and Lisa Brogmus for pollen calculations and diagram construction. Maddy McCartin kindly checked and polished our English text. Last but not least, we are sincerely grateful to the journal editor Danielle Schreve and to the two anonymous reviewers for their careful reading of the manuscript and for their valuable observations.

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