About the Authors

Fei Peng

Contributed equally to this work with: Fei Peng, Sam C. Lin

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

pengfei@muc.edu.cn (FP); samlin@uow.edu.au (SCL)

Affiliations Department of Archaeology and Museology, School of Ethnology and Sociology, Minzu University of China, Beijing, China, 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

Sam C. Lin

Contributed equally to this work with: Fei Peng, Sam C. Lin

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

pengfei@muc.edu.cn (FP); samlin@uow.edu.au (SCL)

Affiliations Centre for Archaeological Science, School of Earth, Atmospheric and Life Sciences, University of Wollongong, Wollongong, New South Wales, Australia, Australian Research Council Centre of Excellence for Australian Biodiversity and Heritage, University of Wollongong, Wollongong, New South Wales, Australia

Ilaria Patania

Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Zinman Institute of Archaeology, Haifa University, Haifa, Israel

Vladimir Levchenko

Roles Data curation, Methodology, Validation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Centre for Accelerator Science, Australian Nuclear Science and Technology Organization, Lucas Heights, New South Wales, Australia

Jialong Guo

Roles Investigation

Affiliation Institute of Culture Relics and Archaeology of Ningxia Hui Autonomous Region, Yinchuan, China

Huimin Wang

Roles Investigation

Affiliation Institute of Culture Relics and Archaeology of Ningxia Hui Autonomous Region, Yinchuan, China

Xing Gao

Roles Conceptualization, Investigation, Project administration, Supervision, 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, Chinese Academy of Sciences Center for Excellence in Life and Paleoenvironment, Beijing, China, University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.