About the Authors

June Ross

Contributed equally to this work with: June Ross, Kira Westaway, Meg Travers

jross4@une.edu.au

Affiliation Department of Archaeology, University of New England, Armidale, New South Wales, Australia

Kira Westaway

Contributed equally to this work with: June Ross, Kira Westaway, Meg Travers

Affiliation Department of Environmental Sciences, Macquarie University, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia

Meg Travers

Contributed equally to this work with: June Ross, Kira Westaway, Meg Travers

Affiliation Department of Archaeology, University of New England, Armidale, New South Wales, Australia

Michael J. Morwood

† Deceased.

‡ These authors also contributed equally to this work.

Affiliation Centre for Archaeological Science, University of Wollongong, Wollongong, New South Wales, Australia

John Hayward

‡ These authors also contributed equally to this work.

Affiliation Department of Parks and Wildlife, Government of Western Australia, Kununurra, Western Australia, Australia

Competing Interests

The authors have the following interests: The Kandiwal Aboriginal Corporation, an incorporated body encompassing members of the Kandiwal community (about 45 people) provided support during field work and knowledge about sites in their country, under a research agreement with the ARC (as a Linkage Partner). Slingair and Heliwork Pty Ltd provided a discount on air travel across the northwest Kimberley under a research agreement with the ARC (as a Linkage Partner). There are no patents, products in development or marketed products to declare. This does not alter our adherence to all the PLOS ONE policies on sharing data and materials, as detailed online in the guide for authors.

Author Contributions

Conceptualization: MJM. Data curation: KW. Formal analysis: JR MT. Funding acquisition: MJM JR KW. Investigation: JR MT KW JH. Methodology: KW. Project administration: JR. Resources: MJM JH. Software: KW. Supervision: JR. Validation: JR KW MT. Visualization: MT KW. Writing – original draft: JR KW MT. Writing – review & editing: MT JR.