About the Authors

Maite Arilla

Affiliations Àrea de Prehistòria, Universitat Rovira i Virgili (URV), Tarragona, Spain, IPHES, Institut Català de Palaeoecologia Humana i Evolució Social, Tarragona, Spain

Jordi Rosell

Affiliations Àrea de Prehistòria, Universitat Rovira i Virgili (URV), Tarragona, Spain, IPHES, Institut Català de Palaeoecologia Humana i Evolució Social, Tarragona, Spain

Ruth Blasco

rblascolopez@gmail.com

Affiliation The Gibraltar Museum, Gibraltar, Gibraltar

Manuel Domínguez-Rodrigo

Affiliations IDEA (Instituto de Evolución en África), Museo de los Orígenes, Madrid, Spain, Department of Prehistory, Complutense University, Madrid, Spain

Travis Rayne Pickering

Affiliations Department of Anthropology, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, Wisconsin, United States of America, Evolutionary Studies Institute, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa, Plio-Pleistocene Palaeontology Section, Department of Vertebrates, Ditsong National Museum of Natural History (Transvaal Museum), Pretoria, South Africa

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: MA JR RB. Performed the experiments: MA JR RB. Analyzed the data: MA JR RB MDR TRP. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: MA JR RB MDR TRP. Contributed to the writing of the manuscript: MA JR RB MDR TRP. Statistical analyses: MDR.