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\paragraph{Conclusions}  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, many current interpretations of Neanderthal lifestyle livelihood  during MIS 5e may not accurately represent this species preferred habitat and livelihood, habitat,  i.e. the technological adaptations required to survive in coastal habitats. Further research is needed to investigate the cultural and technological differences between Neanderthal populations inhabiting habitats with such 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 factors driving habitat suitability at the local scale in different regions across the study area. This methodology can help to avoid discrete representations of presence/absence, using instead SDMs as a source of hypothesis testing and a a source of valuable information for interpreting the ecological conditions at Pleistocene archaeological sites.