About the Authors

Kurt W. Alt

Contributed equally to this work with: Kurt W. Alt, Corina Knipper

kurt.alt@unibas.ch

Affiliations Center for Natural and Cultural History of the Teeth, Danube Private University, Krems, Austria, State Office for Heritage Management and Archaeology Saxony-Anhalt and State Museum of Prehistory, Halle, Germany, Institute for Prehistory and Archaeological Science, Basel University, Basel, Switzerland

Corina Knipper

Contributed equally to this work with: Kurt W. Alt, Corina Knipper

Affiliation Curt Engelhorn Centre Archaeometry gGmbH, Mannheim, Germany

Daniel Peters

Affiliation Institut für Prähistorische Archäologie, Freie Universität Berlin, Berlin, Germany

Wolfgang Müller

Affiliation Department of Earth Sciences, Royal Holloway University of London, London, United Kingdom

Anne-France Maurer

Affiliation Laboratório Hercules, Universidade de Évora, Évora, Portugal

Isabelle Kollig

Affiliation State Office for Heritage Management and Archaeology Saxony-Anhalt and State Museum of Prehistory, Halle, Germany

Nicole Nicklisch

Affiliations Center for Natural and Cultural History of the Teeth, Danube Private University, Krems, Austria, State Office for Heritage Management and Archaeology Saxony-Anhalt and State Museum of Prehistory, Halle, Germany, Institute for Prehistory and Archaeological Science, Basel University, Basel, Switzerland

Christiane Müller

Affiliation Institute of Anthropology, University of Mainz, Mainz, Germany

Sarah Karimnia

Affiliation Institute of Anthropology, University of Mainz, Mainz, Germany

Guido Brandt

Affiliation Institute of Anthropology, University of Mainz, Mainz, Germany

Christina Roth

Affiliation Institute of Anthropology, University of Mainz, Mainz, Germany

Martin Rosner

Affiliation IsoAnalysis UG, Berlin, Germany

Balász Mende

Affiliation Archaeological Institute, Research Centre for Humanities, Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Budapest, Hungary

Bernd R. Schöne

Affiliation Institute of Geosciences, University of Mainz, Mainz, Germany

Tivadar Vida

Affiliation Department of Prehistory and Protohistory, Eötvös Loránd University of Budapest, Budapest, Hungary

Uta von Freeden

Affiliation German Archaeological Institute, Roman Germanic Commission, Frankfurt a. M., Germany

Competing Interests

Martin Rosner is employed by a commercial company "IsoAnalysis UG". This does not alter the authors' adherence to PLOS ONE policies on sharing data and materials.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: KWA UVF TV. Performed the experiments: WM AFM CM SK CR MR CK IK KWA DP UVF TV. Analyzed the data: CK DP KWA WM AFM IK CM SK GB TV UVF. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: BRS BM. Wrote the paper: KWA CK DP SK GB UVF. Excavated the cemetery: TV UVF BM DP KWA IK. Provided input on the Manuscript: WM AFM IK CM TV NN.