About the Authors

Kurt W. Alt

Contributed equally to this work with: Kurt W. Alt, Marion Benz

kurt.alt@dp-uni.ac.at

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

Marion Benz

Contributed equally to this work with: Kurt W. Alt, Marion Benz

Affiliation Department of Near Eastern Archaeology, Albert-Ludwigs University, Freiburg, Germany

Werner Vach

Affiliation Center of Medical Biometry and Medical Informatics, University Medical Center, Albert-Ludwigs University, Freiburg, Germany

Tal L. Simmons

Current address: Department of Forensic Science, Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, Virginia, United States of America

Affiliation Institute for Advanced Studies, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Jerusalem, Israel

A. Nigel Goring-Morris

Affiliation Institute of Archaeology, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Jerusalem, Israel

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: KWA MB. Analyzed the data: KWA MB WV TLS ANGM. Wrote the paper: KWA MB WV TLS ANGM. Performed the study: KWA MB WV. Conducted fieldwork and recovered data: TLS ANGM.