About the Authors

Shannon P. McPherron

Roles Methodology, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

mcpherron@eva.mpg.de

Affiliation Department of Human Evolution, Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Leipzig, Germany

Aylar Abdolahzadeh

Roles Data curation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Anthropology, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States of America

Will Archer

Roles Data curation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Department of Human Evolution, Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Leipzig, Germany, Department of Archaeology and Anthropology, National Museum, Bloemfontein, South Africa

Annie Chan

Roles Data curation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Department of Asian Studies, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München, Munich, Germany, Centre de Recherche sur les Civilisations de l’Asie Orientale, Paris, France

Igor Djakovic

Roles Data curation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Archaeology, University of Leiden, Leiden, The Netherlands

Tamara Dogandžić

Roles Data curation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Human Evolution, Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Leipzig, Germany

George M. Leader

Roles Data curation

Affiliations Department of Anthropology, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States of America, Department of Sociology and Anthropology, The College of New Jersey, Ewing, New Jersey, United States of America

Li Li

Roles Data curation, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Early Prehistory and Quaternary Ecology, Eberhard Karls University of Tübingen, Tübingen, Germany

Sam Lin

Roles Data curation, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Centre for Archaeological Science, School of Earth, Atmospheric and Life Sciences, University of Wollongong, Wollongong, Australia

Matthew Magnani

Roles Data curation

Affiliation Department of Anthropology, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States of America

Jonathan Reeves

Roles Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Early Prehistory and Quaternary Ecology, Eberhard Karls University of Tübingen, Tübingen, Germany

Zeljko Rezek

Roles Data curation, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Human Evolution, Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Leipzig, Germany

Marcel Weiss

Roles Data curation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Human Evolution, Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Leipzig, Germany

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.