About the Authors

Rachel Wood

Contributed equally to this work with: Rachel Wood, Zenobia Jacobs, Dorcas Vannieuwenhuyse

rachel.wood@anu.edu.au

Affiliation Research School of Earth Sciences, Australian National University, Canberra, ACT, 2601, Australia

Zenobia Jacobs

Contributed equally to this work with: Rachel Wood, Zenobia Jacobs, Dorcas Vannieuwenhuyse

Affiliation Centre for Archaeological Science, School of Earth and Environmental Sciences, University of Wollongong, New South Wales, 2522, Australia

Dorcas Vannieuwenhuyse

Contributed equally to this work with: Rachel Wood, Zenobia Jacobs, Dorcas Vannieuwenhuyse

Affiliation School of Social Sciences, University of Western Australia, Crawley, Western Australia, 6009, Australia

Jane Balme

Affiliation School of Social Sciences, University of Western Australia, Crawley, Western Australia, 6009, Australia

Sue O’Connor

Affiliation Department of Archaeology and Natural History, Research School of Pacific and Asian Studies, Australian National University, Canberra, ACT, 2601, Australia

Rose Whitau

Affiliation Department of Archaeology and Natural History, Research School of Pacific and Asian Studies, Australian National University, Canberra, ACT, 2601, Australia

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: JB SO'C R Wood ZJ. Performed the experiments: R Wood ZJ DV R Whitau. Analyzed the data: R Wood ZJ DV JB SO'C. Wrote the paper: R Wood ZJ DV JB SO'C.