About the Authors

Arie Shaus

Contributed equally to this work with: Arie Shaus, Yana Gerber, Shira Faigenbaum-Golovin, Barak Sober

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

ashaus@post.tau.ac.il (AS); gerberyana@gmail.com (YG); shirafaigen@gmail.com (SFG); barakino@math.duke.edu (BS)

Affiliations Department of Applied Mathematics, Tel Aviv University, Tel Aviv, Israel, Jacob M. Alkow Department of Archaeology and Ancient Near Eastern Civilizations, Tel Aviv University, Tel Aviv, Israel, Department of Genetics, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, United States of America

Yana Gerber

Contributed equally to this work with: Arie Shaus, Yana Gerber, Shira Faigenbaum-Golovin, Barak Sober

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

ashaus@post.tau.ac.il (AS); gerberyana@gmail.com (YG); shirafaigen@gmail.com (SFG); barakino@math.duke.edu (BS)

Affiliation Division of Identification & Forensic Science, Retired Senior Questioned Document Examiner, Israel Police, Tel Aviv, Israel

Shira Faigenbaum-Golovin

Contributed equally to this work with: Arie Shaus, Yana Gerber, Shira Faigenbaum-Golovin, Barak Sober

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

ashaus@post.tau.ac.il (AS); gerberyana@gmail.com (YG); shirafaigen@gmail.com (SFG); barakino@math.duke.edu (BS)

Affiliation Department of Applied Mathematics, Tel Aviv University, Tel Aviv, Israel

Barak Sober

Contributed equally to this work with: Arie Shaus, Yana Gerber, Shira Faigenbaum-Golovin, Barak Sober

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

ashaus@post.tau.ac.il (AS); gerberyana@gmail.com (YG); shirafaigen@gmail.com (SFG); barakino@math.duke.edu (BS)

Affiliations Department of Mathematics, Duke University, Durham, NC, United States of America, Rhodes Information Initiative, Duke University, Durham, NC, United States of America

Eli Piasetzky

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

Affiliation School of Physics and Astronomy, Tel Aviv University, Tel Aviv, Israel

Israel Finkelstein

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

Affiliation Jacob M. Alkow Department of Archaeology and Ancient Near Eastern Civilizations, Tel Aviv University, Tel Aviv, Israel

Competing Interests

NO authors have competing interests.