About the Authors

Ainit Snir

Affiliation The Martin (Szusz) Department of Land of Israel Studies and Archaeology, Institute of Archaeology, Bar Ilan University, Ramat-Gan, Israel

Dani Nadel

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

Iris Groman-Yaroslavski

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

Yoel Melamed

Affiliation The Mina and Everard Goodman Faculty of Life Sciences, Bar-Ilan University, Ramat-Gan, Israel

Marcelo Sternberg

Affiliation Department of Molecular Biology and Ecology of Plants, The George S. Wise Faculty of Life Sciences, Tel Aviv University, Tel Aviv, Israel

Ofer Bar-Yosef

Affiliation Department of Anthropology, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States of America

Ehud Weiss

ehud.weiss@biu.ac.il

Affiliation The Martin (Szusz) Department of Land of Israel Studies and Archaeology, Institute of Archaeology, Bar Ilan University, Ramat-Gan, Israel

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: AS EW. Performed the experiments: AS EW. Analyzed the data: AS EW. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: YM IGY. Wrote the paper: AS EW DN MS OBY IGY.