About the Authors

Ariel Malinsky-Buller

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

malinsky@rgzm.de

Affiliations MONREPOS, Archaeological Research Centre and Museum for Human Behavioural Evolution, Neuwied, Germany, The Institute of Archaeology, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Jerusalem, Israel

Philip Glauberman

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

Affiliations Institute of Archaeology and Ethnography, National Academy of Sciences of the Republic of Armenia, Yerevan, Armenia, Xi’an Jiaotong-Liverpool University, Suzhou, China

Vincent Ollivier

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

Affiliations CNRS, Aix Marseille Univ, Minist Culture, LAMPEA, Aix-en-Provence, France, Aix Marseille Univ, CNRS, FR ECCOREV, Aix-en-Provence, France

Tobias Lauer

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

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

Rhys Timms

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

Affiliation Centre for Quaternary Research, Department of Geography, Royal Holloway, University of London, Egham, Surrey, United Kingdom

Ellery Frahm

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

Affiliation Yale Initiative for the Study of Ancient Pyrotechnology, Council on Archaeological Studies, Department of Anthropology, Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut, United States of America

Alexander Brittingham

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

Affiliation Department of Anthropology, Old World Archaeology, University of Connecticut, Storrs, Connecticut, United States of America

Benno Triller

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

Affiliation Institute of Ancient Studies, Johannes Gutenberg-University, Mainz, Germany

Lutz Kindler

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

Affiliation MONREPOS, Archaeological Research Centre and Museum for Human Behavioural Evolution, Neuwied, Germany

Monika V. Knul

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

Affiliation Department of Archaeology, Anthropology and Geography, University of Winchester, Winchester, United Kingdom

Masha Krakovsky

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

Affiliation Israel Antiquities Authority, Jerusalem, Israel

Sebastian Joannin

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

Affiliation Institut des Sciences de l’Evolution de Montpellier, Université de Montpellier, CNRS, EPHE, Montpellier, France

Michael T. Hren

Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Supervision

Affiliations Department of Geoscience, University of Connecticut, Storrs, Connecticut, United States of America, Department of Chemistry, University of Connecticut, Storrs, Connecticut, United States of America

Olivier Bellier

Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition

Affiliations CNRS, Aix Marseille Univ, Minist Culture, LAMPEA, Aix-en-Provence, France, Aix Marseille University, CNRS, IRD, INRAE, Coll France, CEREGE, Aix-en-Provence, France

Alexander A. Clark

Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Validation, Visualization

Affiliation Centre for Quaternary Research, Department of Geography, Royal Holloway, University of London, Egham, Surrey, United Kingdom

Simon P. E. Blockley

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

Affiliation Centre for Quaternary Research, Department of Geography, Royal Holloway, University of London, Egham, Surrey, United Kingdom

Dimidry Arakelyan

Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Visualization

Affiliation Institute of Geological Sciences, National Academy of Sciences of the Republic of Armenia, Yerevan, Armenia

João Marreiros

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

Affiliations TraCEr, Laboratory for Traceology and Controlled Experiments at MONREPOS Archaeological Research Centre and Museum for Human Behavioural Evolution, RGZM, Neuwied, Germany, ICArEHB–Interdisciplinary Center for Archaeology and Evolution of Human Behaviour, Universidade do Algarve, Faro, Portugal

Eduardo Paixaco

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

Affiliations TraCEr, Laboratory for Traceology and Controlled Experiments at MONREPOS Archaeological Research Centre and Museum for Human Behavioural Evolution, RGZM, Neuwied, Germany, ICArEHB–Interdisciplinary Center for Archaeology and Evolution of Human Behaviour, Universidade do Algarve, Faro, Portugal

Ivan Calandra

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

Affiliation TraCEr, Laboratory for Traceology and Controlled Experiments at MONREPOS Archaeological Research Centre and Museum for Human Behavioural Evolution, RGZM, Neuwied, Germany

Robert Ghukasyan

Roles Data curation, Project administration

Affiliation The Institute of Archaeology, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Jerusalem, Israel

David Nora

Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Visualization

Affiliation ICArEHB–Interdisciplinary Center for Archaeology and Evolution of Human Behaviour, Universidade do Algarve, Faro, Portugal

Nadav Nir

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

Affiliation Department of Earth Sciences, Physical Geography, Freie Universität Berlin, Berlin, Germany

Ani Adigyozalyan

Roles Data curation, Formal analysis

Affiliation Institute of Archaeology and Ethnography, National Academy of Sciences of the Republic of Armenia, Yerevan, Armenia

Hayk Haydosyan

Roles Formal analysis

Affiliation Institute of Archaeology and Ethnography, National Academy of Sciences of the Republic of Armenia, Yerevan, Armenia

Boris Gasparyan

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

Affiliation Institute of Archaeology and Ethnography, National Academy of Sciences of the Republic of Armenia, Yerevan, Armenia

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.