About the Authors

Mary E. Prendergast

mprendergast@post.harvard.edu

Affiliation Department of Sociology & Anthropology, Saint Louis University, Madrid, Spain

Hélène Rouby

Affiliations Laboratoire de Géologie de l’École Normale Supérieure, UMR 8538 du CNRS, 75231 Paris, France, Research School of Earth Sciences, The Australian National University, Canberra, ACT 0200, Australia

Paramita Punnwong

Affiliation Faculty of Environment and Resource Studies, Mahidol University, Salaya, Nakhon Pathom 73170, Thailand

Robert Marchant

Affiliation Environment Department, York Institute for Tropical Ecosystems, York, United Kingdom

Alison Crowther

Affiliation School of Social Science, The University of Queensland, Brisbane, Australia

Nikos Kourampas

Affiliations Office of Lifelong Learning, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, Scotland, United Kingdom, Biological and Environmental Sciences, University of Stirling, Stirling, Scotland, United Kingdom

Ceri Shipton

Affiliations McDonald Institute for Archaeological Research, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, United Kingdom, British Institute in Eastern Africa, British Academy, Nairobi, Kenya

Martin Walsh

Affiliation Wolfson College, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, United Kingdom

Kurt Lambeck

Affiliation Research School of Earth Sciences, The Australian National University, Canberra, ACT 0200, Australia

Nicole L. Boivin

Affiliations Research Laboratory for Archaeology and the History of Art, School of Archaeology, University of Oxford, Oxford, United Kingdom, Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History, Jena, Germany

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: MEP NLB AC RM KL. Performed the experiments: MEP HR PP CS. Analyzed the data: MEP HR PP CS. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: HR PP KL RM. Wrote the paper: MEP HR PP RM AC NK CS MW KL NLB.