About the Authors

Kurt W. Alt

Contributed equally to this work with: Kurt W. Alt, Stephanie Zesch

kurt.alt@unibas.ch

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

Stephanie Zesch

Contributed equally to this work with: Kurt W. Alt, Stephanie Zesch

Affiliation German Mummy Project, Reiss-Engelhorn-Museen, Mannheim, Germany

Rafael Garrido-Pena

Affiliation Department of Prehistory and Archaeology, Faculty of Philosophy and Letters, Autonomous University of Madrid, Madrid, Spain

Corina Knipper

Affiliation Curt Engelhorn Centre Archaeometry gGmbH, Mannheim, Germany

Anna Szécsényi-Nagy

Affiliation Laboratory of Archaeogenetics, Institute of Archaeology, Research Centre for the Humanities, Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Budapest, Hungary

Christina Roth

Affiliation Institute of Anthropology, Mainz University, Mainz, Germany

Cristina Tejedor-Rodríguez

Affiliation Arcadia-General Foundation of Valladolid University, Valladolid, Spain

Petra Held

Affiliation Department of Applied and Analytical Paleontology, Mainz University, Mainz, Germany

Íñigo García-Martínez-de-Lagrán

Affiliations Department of Prehistory, University of the Basque Government, Vitoria, Spain, Laboratoire TRACES UMR5608, Université de Toulouse, Toulouse, France

Denise Navitainuck

Affiliation Institute of Anthropology, Mainz University, Mainz, Germany

Héctor Arcusa Magallón

Affiliation Private Technical Archaeologist, Zaragoza, Spain

Manuel A. Rojo-Guerra

Affiliation Department of Prehistory and Archaeology, Valladolid University, Valladolid, Spain

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: KWA MARG RGP. Performed the experiments: KWA CK PH CR DN. Analyzed the data: KWA ASN CR PH CK SZ MARG RGP HAM. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: KWA MARG RGP CTR IGML HAM. Wrote the paper: KWA CK MARG RGP PH ASN CR SZ. Participated in the excavation: MARG CTR IGML. Provided ancient samples, contextual information, and access to unpublished archaeological data: MARG RGP CTR IGML HAM. Provided input on the manuscript: CTR IGML HAM.