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Our model shows the highest habitat suitability values along coastal areas with mild summers, while the Central European sites, which have dominated our view about the Neanderthal life style during the Eemian, showed low habitat suitability and were interpreted to belong to the distribution tail. Therefore, most of the knowledge we have about Neanderthals lifestyle during MIS 5e may not represent accurately the technological adaptations required to survive in coastal habitats, and further research would be needed to investigate the cultural and technological differences between Neanderthal populations inhabiting habitats with contrasting ecological features.  The methodology presented here to analyze the habitat suitability model is novel, and has proven useful to obtain an insight into the abiotic processes driving habitat suitability at the local scale in different regions across the study area. This methodology can help us to move beyond the "pretty map", and convert SDMs into a source of valuable information that can help to interpret the ecological conditions in at  archaeological sites.