About the Authors

Jeffrey I. Rose

jeffrey.i.rose@gmail.com

Affiliation Institute of Archaeology and Antiquity, University of Birmingham, Birmingham, United Kingdom

Vitaly I. Usik

Affiliation Archaeological Museum, Institute of Archaeology, National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine, Kiev, Ukraine

Anthony E. Marks

Affiliation Department of Anthropology, Southern Methodist University, Dallas, Texas, United States of America

Yamandu H. Hilbert

Affiliation Institute of Archaeology and Antiquity, University of Birmingham, Birmingham, United Kingdom

Christopher S. Galletti

Affiliation School of Geographical Science and Urban Planning, Arizona State University, Tempe, Arizona, United States of America

Ash Parton

Affiliation Department of Anthropology and Geography, Oxford Brookes University, Oxford, United Kingdom

Jean Marie Geiling

Affiliation Institut für Naturwissenschaftliche Archäologie, University of Tübingen, Tübingen, Germany

Viktor Černý

Affiliation Institute of Archaeology of the Academy of Science, Prague, Czech Republic

Mike W. Morley

Affiliation Department of Anthropology and Geography, Oxford Brookes University, Oxford, United Kingdom

Richard G. Roberts

Affiliation Centre for Archaeological Science, School of Earth and Environmental Sciences, University of Wollongong, Wollongong, Australia

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: JIR VIU AEM YHH CSG AP MWM RGR. Performed the experiments: JIR VIU AEM YHH JMG CSG AP RGR. Analyzed the data: JIR VIU AEM YHH JMG RGR. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: JIR RGR. Wrote the paper: JIR VIU AEM CSG AP VC RGR.