About the Authors

Rémy Crassard

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

remy.crassard@cnrs.fr

Affiliations CNRS, USR 3141 CEFAS, Centre Français d’Archéologie et de Sciences Sociales, Kuwait City, Kuwait, CNRS, UMR 5133 Archéorient, Maison de l’Orient et de la Méditerranée, Lyon, France

Vincent Charpentier

Roles Funding acquisition, Investigation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Inrap & CNRS, UMR 7041 ArScAn Archéologie et Sciences de l’Antiquité, MSH Mondes, Nanterre, France

Joy McCorriston

Roles Funding acquisition, Investigation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Anthropology, The Ohio State University, Columbus, OH, United States of America

Jérémie Vosges

Roles Investigation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation CNRS, UMR 5133 Archéorient, Maison de l’Orient et de la Méditerranée, Lyon, France

Sofiane Bouzid

Roles Formal analysis, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation CNRS, UMR 5133 Archéorient, Maison de l’Orient et de la Méditerranée, Lyon, France

Michael D. Petraglia

Roles Funding acquisition, Writing – review & editing

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, DC, United States of America, School of Social Science, University of Queensland, Brisbane, Australia

Competing Interests

Michael D. Petraglia is a PLOS ONE Editorial Board member. This does not alter the authors’ adherence to all the PLOS ONE policies on sharing data and materials.