About the Authors

Ron Pinhasi

ron.pinhasi@ucd.ie (RP); Anna.Belfer-Cohen@mail.huji.ac.il (ABC)

Affiliation Earth Institute and School of Archaeology, University College Dublin, Dublin, Ireland

Tengiz Meshveliani

Affiliation Georgian State Museum, Department of Prehistory, Tbilisi, Georgia

Zinovi Matskevich

Affiliation Israel Antiquities Authority, Jerusalem, Israel

Guy Bar-Oz

Affiliation Zinman Institute of Archaeology, University of Haifa, Haifa, Israel

Lior Weissbrod

Affiliation Zinman Institute of Archaeology, University of Haifa, Haifa, Israel

Christopher E. Miller

Affiliation Institute for Archaeological Sciences, and Senckenberg Centre for Human Evolution and Paleoenvironment, University of Tübingen, Tübingen, Germany

Keith Wilkinson

Affiliation Department of Archaeology, University of Winchester, Winchester, United Kingdom

David Lordkipanidze

Affiliation Georgian State Museum, Department of Prehistory, Tbilisi, Georgia

Nino Jakeli

Affiliation Georgian State Museum, Department of Prehistory, Tbilisi, Georgia

Eliso Kvavadze

Affiliation Institute of Paleobiology, National Museum of Georgia, Tbilisi, Georgia

Thomas F. G. Higham

Affiliation Oxford Radiocarbon Accelerator Unit, Research Laboratory for Archaeology & the History of Art, University of Oxford, Oxford, United Kingdom

Anna Belfer-Cohen

ron.pinhasi@ucd.ie (RP); Anna.Belfer-Cohen@mail.huji.ac.il (ABC)

Affiliation Institute of Archaeology, Hebrew University, Jerusalem, Israel

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: DL RP TM ZM ABC. Performed the experiments: RP TM ZM ABC GBO KW NJ TH. Analyzed the data: EK CM LW TM ZM ABC GBO KW NJ TH. Contributed to the writing of the manuscript: RP EK CM LW TM ZM ABC GBO KW NJ TH.