About the Authors

Naama Sukenik

Contributed equally to this work with: Naama Sukenik, Erez Ben-Yosef

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

naamasuk@gmail.com, naamas@israntique.org.il (NS); ebenyose@tauex.tau.ac.il (EB-Y)

Current address: National Treasures Department, Israel Antiquities Authority, Beth Shemesh Storage and Research Facility, Beth Shemesh Industrial Zone West, Israel

Affiliation National Treasures Department, Israel Antiquities Authority, Jerusalem, Israel

David Iluz

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

Current address: The Mina and Everard Goodman Faculty of Life Sciences, Bar Ilan University, Ramat- Gan, Israel

Affiliations The Mina and Everard Goodman Faculty of Life Sciences, Bar Ilan University, Ramat-Gan, Israel, Environmental Sciences and Agriculture Department, Beit Berl College, Beit Berl, Israel

Zohar Amar

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Resources, Writing – review & editing

Current address: The Martin (Szusz) Department of Land of Israel Studies and Archaeology, Bar Ilan University, Ramat-Gan, Israel

Affiliation The Martin (Szusz) Department of Land of Israel Studies and Archaeology, Bar Ilan University, Ramat-Gan, Israel

Alexander Varvak

Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Writing – review & editing

Current address: The Mina and Everard Goodman Faculty of Life Sciences, Bar Ilan University, Ramat- Gan, Israel

Affiliation The Mina and Everard Goodman Faculty of Life Sciences, Bar Ilan University, Ramat-Gan, Israel

Orit Shamir

Roles Conceptualization, Methodology, Resources, Writing – review & editing

Current address: National Treasures Department, Israel Antiquities Authority, Beth Shemesh Storage and Research Facility, Beth Shemesh Industrial Zone West, Israel

Affiliation National Treasures Department, Israel Antiquities Authority, Jerusalem, Israel

Erez Ben-Yosef

Contributed equally to this work with: Naama Sukenik, Erez Ben-Yosef

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

naamasuk@gmail.com, naamas@israntique.org.il (NS); ebenyose@tauex.tau.ac.il (EB-Y)

Current address: Department of Archaeology and Ancient Near Eastern Cultures, Tel Aviv University, Tel-Aviv, Israel

Affiliation Department of Archaeology and Ancient Near Eastern Cultures, Tel Aviv University, Tel-Aviv, Israel

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist