About the Authors

Thomas Cucchi

Contributed equally to this work with: Thomas Cucchi, Lingling Dai

cucchi@mnhn.fr

Affiliations CNRS, Muséum national d’Histoire naturelle, Sorbonne Universités, UMR 7209, Archéozoologie, Archéobotanique: Sociétés, Pratiques et Environnements, Paris, France, Department of Archaeology, University of Aberdeen, St Mary's, Aberdeen, United Kingdom

Lingling Dai

Contributed equally to this work with: Thomas Cucchi, Lingling Dai

Affiliations History Faculty, Anhui University, Hefei, China, Key lab of vertebrate Evolution and Human Origins of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Institute of Vertebrate Palaeontology and Palaeoanthropology, Chinese Academy of Science, Beijing, China

Marie Balasse

Affiliation CNRS, Muséum national d’Histoire naturelle, Sorbonne Universités, UMR 7209, Archéozoologie, Archéobotanique: Sociétés, Pratiques et Environnements, Paris, France

Chunqing Zhao

Affiliation Institute of Archaeology, Chinese Academy of Science, Beijing, China

Jiangtao Gao

Affiliation Institute of Archaeology, Chinese Academy of Science, Beijing, China

Yaowu Hu

Affiliation History Faculty, Anhui University, Hefei, China

Jing Yuan

Affiliation Institute of Archaeology, Chinese Academy of Science, Beijing, China

Jean-Denis Vigne

Affiliation CNRS, Muséum national d’Histoire naturelle, Sorbonne Universités, UMR 7209, Archéozoologie, Archéobotanique: Sociétés, Pratiques et Environnements, Paris, France

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: TC LD MB YH JY JDV. Performed the experiments: TC LD. Analyzed the data: TC LD MB YH JDV. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: CZ JG. Wrote the paper: TC LD MB YH JY JDV.