About the Authors

Véronique Michel

veronique.michel@cepam.cnrs.fr

Affiliations Université Nice Sophia Antipolis, Campus Saint-Jean-d'Angély, SJA3 - CEPAM- UMR 7264 CNRS, Nice Cedex 4, France, Géoazur, UMR7329, UNS-CNRS-IRD-OCA, Valbonne, France

Guanjun Shen

Affiliation College of Geographical Sciences, Nanjing Normal University, Nanjing, China

Chuan-Chou Shen

Affiliation High-precision Mass Spectrometry and Environment Change Laboratory (HISPEC), Department of Geoscience, National Taiwan University N°1, Taipei, Taiwan ROC

Chung-Che Wu

Affiliation High-precision Mass Spectrometry and Environment Change Laboratory (HISPEC), Department of Geoscience, National Taiwan University N°1, Taipei, Taiwan ROC

Chrystèle Vérati

Affiliation Géoazur, UMR7329, UNS-CNRS-IRD-OCA, Valbonne, France

Sylvain Gallet

Affiliation Géoazur, UMR7329, UNS-CNRS-IRD-OCA, Valbonne, France

Marie-Hélène Moncel

Affiliation Département de Préhistoire, UMR 7194, MNHN, IPH, Paris, France

Jean Combier

Affiliation CNRS, Macon, France

Samir Khatib

Affiliation Laboratoire Départemental de Préhistoire du Lazaret, Nice, France

Michel Manetti

Affiliation Université Nice Sophia Antipolis, Département Terre-Environnement-Espace, Parc Valrose, Nice Cedex 2, France

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: VM GS CCS CV. Performed the experiments: VM GS CCS CCW. Analyzed the data: VM GS CCS CCW CV SG. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: VM MM. Wrote the manuscript: VM GS CCS CV MHM. Sampling: VM JC SK MM.