About the Authors

William J. Rink

rinkwj@mcmaster.ca (WJR); m.roksandic@uwinnipeg.ca (MR)

Affiliation School of Geography and Earth Sciences, McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada

Norbert Mercier

Affiliation Institut de Recherche sur les Archéomatériaux, Centre de Recherche en Physique Appliquée à l’Archéologie, Maison de l’Archélogie, Pessac, France

Dušan Mihailović

Affiliation Department of Archaeology, Faculty of Philosophy, Belgrade University, Cika Ljubina, Belgrade, Serbia

Mike W. Morley

Affiliation Human Origins and Palaeo-Environments (HOPE) Research Group, Department of Social Sciences, Oxford Brookes University, Gipsy Lane, Oxford, United Kingdom

Jeroen W. Thompson

Affiliation Department of Medical Physics and Applied Radiation Sciences, McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada

Mirjana Roksandic

rinkwj@mcmaster.ca (WJR); m.roksandic@uwinnipeg.ca (MR)

Affiliation Department of Anthropology, University of Winnipeg, Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: WJR NM DM MR. Performed the experiments: WJR NM JT. Analyzed the data: WJR NM MR DM MM. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: WJR NM MM MR DM. Wrote the paper: WJR NM MR DM MM.