About the Authors

Marco Madella

marco.madella@icrea.cat

Affiliations Complexity and Socio-Ecological Dynamics Research Group (CaSEs), Barcelona, Spain, ICREA – Department of Humanities, Universitat Pompeu Fabra (UPF), Barcelona, Spain

Juan José García-Granero

Affiliations Complexity and Socio-Ecological Dynamics Research Group (CaSEs), Barcelona, Spain, Department of Archaeology and Anthropology, Institució Milà i Fontanals - Spanish National Research Council (CSIC), Barcelona, Spain

Welmoed A. Out

Affiliation Graduate School Human Development in Landscapes, Christian-Albrechts-Universität, Kiel, Germany

Philippa Ryan

Affiliations Department of Conservation and Scientific Research, The British Museum, London, United Kingdom, Institute of Archaeology, UCL, London, United Kingdom

Donatella Usai

Affiliation Centro Studi Sudanesi e Sub-Sahariani, Treviso, Italy

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: MM WAO. Performed the experiments: WAO JJGG. Analyzed the data: JJGG MM PR. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: DU. Wrote the paper: MM JJGG WAO PR DU. Director of the excavations at the site: DU.