About the Authors

Oshan Wedage

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

wedage@shh.mpg.de (OW); picin@shh.mpg.de (AP); petraglia@shh.mpg.de (MP); roberts@shh.mpg.de (PR)

Affiliations Department of Archaeology, Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History, Jena, Germany, Department of History and Archaeology, University of Sri Jayewardenepura, Gangodawila, Nugegoda, Sri Lanka

Andrea Picin

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

wedage@shh.mpg.de (OW); picin@shh.mpg.de (AP); petraglia@shh.mpg.de (MP); roberts@shh.mpg.de (PR)

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

James Blinkhorn

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

Affiliations Department of Archaeology, Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History, Jena, Germany, Department of Geography, Royal Holloway, University of London, London, England, United Kingdom

Katerina Douka

Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Supervision, Validation, Writing – original draft

Affiliations Department of Archaeology, Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History, Jena, Germany, Research Laboratory for Archaeology and the History of Art, University of Oxford, Oxford, England, United Kingdom

Siran Deraniyagala

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Archaeology, Government of Sri Lanka, Colombo, Sri Lanka

Nikos Kourampas

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

Affiliations Biological and Environmental Science, University of Stirling, Stirling, Scotland, United Kingdom, Centre for Open Learning, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, Scotland, United Kingdom

Nimal Perera

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

Affiliation Department of Archaeology, Government of Sri Lanka, Colombo, Sri Lanka

Ian Simpson

Roles Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Resources, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft

Affiliation Biological and Environmental Science, University of Stirling, Stirling, Scotland, United Kingdom

Nicole Boivin

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

Affiliations Department of Archaeology, Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History, Jena, Germany, School of Social Science, The University of Queensland, Brisbane, Queensland, Australia, Department of Anthropology and Archaeology, University of Calgary, Calgary, Canada, Department of Anthropology, National Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C., United States of America

Michael Petraglia

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Resources, Supervision, Validation, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

wedage@shh.mpg.de (OW); picin@shh.mpg.de (AP); petraglia@shh.mpg.de (MP); 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, Brisbane, Queensland, Australia, Department of Anthropology, National Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C., United States of America

Patrick Roberts

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

wedage@shh.mpg.de (OW); picin@shh.mpg.de (AP); petraglia@shh.mpg.de (MP); 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, Brisbane, Queensland, Australia

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.