About the Authors

Angelina Münster

Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Software, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

amuenster@uni-mainz.de (AM); kurt.alt@dp-uni.ac.at (KWA)

Affiliation Institute of Anthropology, Johannes Gutenberg University, Mainz, Germany

Corina Knipper

Roles Formal analysis, Project administration, Supervision, Validation, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Curt-Engelhorn-Centre for Archaeometry gGmbH, Mannheim, Germany

Vicky M. Oelze

Roles Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Anthropology Department, University of California, Santa Cruz, California, United States of America

Nicole Nicklisch

Roles Validation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Center of Natural and Cultural History of Man, Danube Private University (DPU), Krems-Stein, Austria, State Office for Heritage Management and Archaeology, Saxony-Anhalt/State Museum of Prehistory, Halle/Saale, Germany

Marcus Stecher

Roles Resources, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Institute of Anthropology, Johannes Gutenberg University, Mainz, Germany

Björn Schlenker

Roles Investigation, Resources, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation State Office for Heritage Management and Archaeology, Saxony-Anhalt/State Museum of Prehistory, Halle/Saale, Germany

Robert Ganslmeier

Roles Investigation, Resources, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation State Office for Heritage Management and Archaeology, Saxony-Anhalt/State Museum of Prehistory, Halle/Saale, Germany

Matthias Fragata

Roles Resources, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Xylem Analytics Germany Sales GmbH & Co. KG, Mainz, Germany

Susanne Friederich

Roles Investigation, Resources

Affiliation State Office for Heritage Management and Archaeology, Saxony-Anhalt/State Museum of Prehistory, Halle/Saale, Germany

Veit Dresely

Roles Resources

Affiliation State Office for Heritage Management and Archaeology, Saxony-Anhalt/State Museum of Prehistory, Halle/Saale, Germany

Vera Hubensack

Roles Resources, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation State Office for Heritage Management, Saxony, Dresden, Germany

Guido Brandt

Roles Resources, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History, Jena, Germany

Hans-Jürgen Döhle

Roles Investigation, Resources, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation State Office for Heritage Management and Archaeology, Saxony-Anhalt/State Museum of Prehistory, Halle/Saale, Germany

Werner Vach

Roles Formal analysis, Investigation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Clinical Epidemiology Group, Center for Medical Biometry and Medical Informatics, Medical Center—University of Freiburg, Freiburg, Germany

Ralf Schwarz

Roles Resources, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation State Office for Heritage Management and Archaeology, Saxony-Anhalt/State Museum of Prehistory, Halle/Saale, Germany

Carola Metzner-Nebelsick

Roles Resources, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Institute of Prehistoric Archaeology and Provincial Roman Archaeology, Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich, Munich, Germany

Harald Meller

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Funding acquisition, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation State Office for Heritage Management and Archaeology, Saxony-Anhalt/State Museum of Prehistory, Halle/Saale, Germany

Kurt W. Alt

Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Project administration, Supervision, Validation, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

amuenster@uni-mainz.de (AM); kurt.alt@dp-uni.ac.at (KWA)

Affiliations Center of Natural and Cultural History of Man, Danube Private University (DPU), Krems-Stein, Austria, State Office for Heritage Management and Archaeology, Saxony-Anhalt/State Museum of Prehistory, Halle/Saale, Germany, Department of Biomedical Engineering and Integrative Prehistory and Archaeological Science, Basel University, Basel, Switzerland

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist. Further we want to declare that the company Xylem Analytics Germany Sales GmbH & Co. KG had no role in study design, data collection and analysis, decision to publish, or preparation of the manuscript at all. Xylem Analytics Germany Sales GmbH & Co. KG did not provide financial support, nor in the form of author’s salaries neither in research materials. This does not alter the authors' adherence to PLOS ONE policies on sharing data and materials.