About the Authors

Philipp W. Stockhammer

Contributed equally to this work with: Philipp W. Stockhammer, Ken Massy

philipp.stockhammer@uni-heidelberg.de

Affiliations Cluster of Excellence “Asia and Europe in a Global Context”, Heidelberg University, Heidelberg, Germany, Institute for Prehistory and Early History and Near Eastern Archaeology, Heidelberg University, Heidelberg, Germany

Ken Massy

Contributed equally to this work with: Philipp W. Stockhammer, Ken Massy

Affiliations Ludwig-Maximilians-University, Munich, Germany, Heidelberg Academy of Sciences, Heidelberg, Germany

Corina Knipper

Affiliation Curt Engelhorn Center for Archaeometry gGmbH, Mannheim, Germany

Ronny Friedrich

Affiliation Curt Engelhorn Center for Archaeometry gGmbH, Mannheim, Germany

Bernd Kromer

Affiliation Curt Engelhorn Center for Archaeometry gGmbH, Mannheim, Germany

Susanne Lindauer

Affiliation Curt Engelhorn Center for Archaeometry gGmbH, Mannheim, Germany

Jelena Radosavljević

Affiliations Cluster of Excellence “Asia and Europe in a Global Context”, Heidelberg University, Heidelberg, Germany, Institute for Prehistory and Early History and Near Eastern Archaeology, Heidelberg University, Heidelberg, Germany

Fabian Wittenborn

Affiliation Heidelberg Academy of Sciences, Heidelberg, Germany

Johannes Krause

Affiliation Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History, Jena, Germany

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Performed the experiments: BK SL CK RF. Analyzed the data: PWS KM FW CK. Wrote the paper: PWS KM BK CK JK RF. Designed the figures: JR.