About the Authors

Feng Li

Contributed equally to this work with: Feng Li, Nils Vanwezer

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Validation, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

lifeng@ivpp.ac.cn (FL); petraglia@shh.mpg.de (MP); vanwezer@shh.mpg.de (NV); roberts@shh.mpg.de (PR)

Affiliations Key Laboratory of Vertebrate Evolution and Human Origins of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Institute of Vertebrate Paleontology and Paleoanthropology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China, CAS Center for Excellence in Life and Paleoenvironment, Beijing, China

Nils Vanwezer

Contributed equally to this work with: Feng Li, Nils Vanwezer

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

lifeng@ivpp.ac.cn (FL); petraglia@shh.mpg.de (MP); vanwezer@shh.mpg.de (NV); roberts@shh.mpg.de (PR)

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

Nicole Boivin

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

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

Xing Gao

Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Resources, Supervision, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Key Laboratory of Vertebrate Evolution and Human Origins of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Institute of Vertebrate Paleontology and Paleoanthropology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China, CAS Center for Excellence in Life and Paleoenvironment, Beijing, China, University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China

Florian Ott

Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Resources, Software, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

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

Michael Petraglia

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

lifeng@ivpp.ac.cn (FL); petraglia@shh.mpg.de (MP); vanwezer@shh.mpg.de (NV); roberts@shh.mpg.de (PR)

Affiliations Department of Archaeology, Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History, Jena, Germany, Human Origins Program, National Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C., United States of America

Patrick Roberts

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

lifeng@ivpp.ac.cn (FL); petraglia@shh.mpg.de (MP); vanwezer@shh.mpg.de (NV); roberts@shh.mpg.de (PR)

Affiliations Department of Archaeology, Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History, Jena, Germany, School of Social Science, The University of Queensland, St Lucia, Brisbane, Australia

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.