About the Authors

Fiona Petchey

Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Writing – original draft

fpetchey@waikato.ac.nz

Affiliations Radiocarbon Dating Laboratory, Division of Health, Engineering, Computing and Science, University of Waikato, Hamilton, New Zealand, ARC Centre of Excellence for Australian Biodiversity and Heritage, College of Arts, Society and Education, James Cook University, Cairns, QLD, Australia

Patrick V. Kirch

Roles Funding acquisition, Resources, Writing – original draft

Affiliations Department of Anthropology, University of California, Berkeley, United States of America, Department of Anthropology, University of Hawai'i, Manoa, Hawai’i, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.