About the Authors

Christian Leipe

c.leipe@fu-berlin.de

Affiliation Institute of Geological Sciences, Section Paleontology, Freie Universität Berlin, Malteserstr. 74–100, Building D, Berlin, Germany

Elena A. Sergusheva

Affiliation Institute of History, Archaeology and Ethnography, Far Eastern Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Pushkinskaya 89, Vladivostok, Russia

Stefanie Müller

Affiliations Institute of Geological Sciences, Section Paleontology, Freie Universität Berlin, Malteserstr. 74–100, Building D, Berlin, Germany, Eurasia Department and Beijing Branch Office, German Archaeological Institute, Im Dol 2–6, Building II, Berlin, Germany

Robert N. Spengler III

Affiliations Institute for the Study of the Ancient World, New York University, New York, NY, United States of America, Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History, Jena, Germany

Tomasz Goslar

Affiliations Faculty of Physics, Adam Mickiewicz University, Umultowska 85, Poznan, Poland, Poznan Radiocarbon Laboratory, Foundation of the A. Mickiewicz University, Rubiez 46, Poznan, Poland

Hirofumi Kato

Affiliation Center for Ainu and Indigenous Studies, Hokkaido University, Kita 8, Nishi 6, Kita-ku Sapporo, Hokkaido, Japan

Mayke Wagner

Affiliation Eurasia Department and Beijing Branch Office, German Archaeological Institute, Im Dol 2–6, Building II, Berlin, Germany

Andrzej W. Weber

Affiliations Department of Anthropology, University of Alberta, Tory Bldg. 13–15, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada, Aix Marseille Univ, CNRS, Minist Culture & Com, LAMPEA, Aix-en-Provence, France

Pavel E. Tarasov

Affiliation Institute of Geological Sciences, Section Paleontology, Freie Universität Berlin, Malteserstr. 74–100, Building D, Berlin, Germany

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceptualization: CL PET. Formal analysis: CL EAS SM RNS TG HK MW AWW PET. Funding acquisition: CL HK AWW PET. Investigation: CL EAS SM RNS. Methodology: CL SM RNS TG. Resources: HK AWW. Visualization: CL. Writing – original draft: CL. Writing – review & editing: CL RNS PET.