About the Authors

Kathleen D. Morrison

Roles Conceptualization, Investigation, Methodology, Supervision, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

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

Emily Hammer

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

ehammer@sas.upenn.edu

Affiliation Department of Near East Languages and Civilizations and the Price Lab for the Digital Humanities, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States of America

Oliver Boles

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

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

Marco Madella

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

Affiliations ICREA–CaSEs–Department of Humanities, Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona, Spain, School of Geography, Archaeology and Environmental Studies, The University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa

Nicola Whitehouse

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

Affiliations School of Geography, Earth and Environmental Sciences, Plymouth University, Plymouth, United Kingdom, Department of Archaeology, University of Glasgow, Glasgow, United Kingdom

Marie-Jose Gaillard

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

Affiliation Department of Biology and Environmental Sciences, Linnaeus University, Växjö, Sweden

Jennifer Bates

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

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

Marc Vander Linden

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

Affiliation Institute for the Modelling of Socio-Environmental Transitions, Bournemouth University, Bournemouth, United Kingdom

Stefania Merlo

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

Affiliation School of Geography, Archaeology and Environmental Studies, The University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa

Alice Yao

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

Affiliation Department of Anthropology, University of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois, United States of America

Laura Popova

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

Affiliation Barrett Honors College, Arizona State University, Tempe, Arizona, United States of America

Austin Chad Hill

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

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

Ferran Antolin

Roles Methodology, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Integrative Prehistory and Archaeological Science (IPNA/IPAS), University of Basel, Basel, Switzerland

Andrew Bauer

Roles Methodology, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Anthropology, Stanford University, Stanford, California, United States of America

Stefano Biagetti

Roles Methodology, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Department d’Humanitats, Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona, Spain, School of Geography, Archaeology and Environmental Studies, University of the Witwatersrand, South Africa

Rosie R. Bishop

Roles Methodology, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Museum of Archaeology, University of Stavanger, Stavanger, Norway

Phillip Buckland

Roles Methodology, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Historical, Philosophical and religious Studies, Umeå University, Umeå, Sweden

Pablo Cruz

Roles Methodology, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation UE CISOR CONICET UNJu, Argentine National Science Council (CONICET), Argentina

Dagmar Dreslerová

Roles Methodology, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Institute of Archaeology of the Czech Academy of Sciences, Academy of Sciences Prague, Czech Republic

Gerrit Dusseldorp

Roles Methodology, Writing – review & editing

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

Erle Ellis

Roles Methodology, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Palaeo-Research Institute, University of Johannesburg, Johannesburg, South Africa, Department of Geography and Environmental Systems, University of Maryland Baltimore County, Maryland, United States of America

Dragana Filipovic

Roles Methodology, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Institute of Pre- and Protohistoric Archaeology, Kiel, Germany

Thomas Foster

Roles Methodology, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation College of Arts & Sciences, Anthropology, University of Tulsa, Tusla, Oklahoma, United States of America

Matthew J. Hannaford

Roles Methodology, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation School of Geography, University of Lincoln, Lincoln, United Kingdom

Sandy P. Harrison

Roles Methodology, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation School of Archaeology, Geography and Environmental Science, University of Reading, Reading, United Kingdom

Manjil Hazarika

Roles Methodology, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Archaeology, Cotton University, Guwahati, India

Hajnalka Herold

Roles Methodology, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Archaeology, University of Exeter, Exeter, United Kingdom

Johanna Hilpert

Roles Methodology, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Institute for Prehistoric Archaeology, Universitat zu Koln, Cologne, Germany

Jed O. Kaplan

Roles Methodology, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Earth Sciences, The University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, Hong Kong

Andrea Kay

Roles Methodology, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History, Jena, Germany

Kees Klein Goldewijk

Roles Methodology, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Copernicus Institute of Sustainable Development, Utrecht University, Utrecht, The Netherlands

Jan Kolář

Roles Methodology, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Institute of Botany of the Czech Academy of Sciences, Prague, Czech Republic, Institute of Archaeology and Museology, Masaryk University, Brno, Czech Republic

Elizabeth Kyazike

Roles Methodology, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of History and Political Science, Kyambogo University, Kampala, Uganda

Julian Laabs

Roles Methodology, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Institute for Archaeolgical Scienes, Bern University, Bern, Switzerland, Oeschger Centre for Climate Change Research, Bern University, Bern, Switzerland, Institute of Pre- and Protohistoric Archaeology, Kiel University, Keil, Germany

Carla Lancelotti

Roles Methodology, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation ICREA–Department of Humanities, Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona, Spain

Paul Lane

Roles Methodology, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Department of Archaeology, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, United Kingdom, School of Geography, Archaeology and Environmental Studies, University of the Witwatersrand, Witwatersrand, South Africa

Dan Lawrence

Roles Methodology, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Archaeology, Durham University, Durham, United Kingdom

Krista Lewis

Roles Methodology, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Sociology and Anthropology, University of Arkansas at Little Rock, Little Rock, Arkansas, United States of America

Umberto Lombardo

Roles Methodology, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Institute of Geography, University of Bern, Bern, Switzerland

Giulio Lucarini

Roles Methodology, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Institute of Heritage Science, National Research Council of Italy, Montelibretti, Rome, Italy, Department of Asian, African and Mediterranean Studies, University of Naples L’Orientale, Naples, Italy

Manuel Arroyo-Kalin

Roles Methodology, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Institute of Archaeology, University College London, London, United Kingdom

Rob Marchant

Roles Methodology, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation York Institute for Tropical Ecosystems, Department of Environment and Geography, University of York, York, United Kingdom

Francis Mayle

Roles Methodology, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Geography and Environmental Science, University of Reading, Reading, United Kingdom

Meriel McClatchie

Roles Methodology, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation School of Archaeology, University College Dublin, Dublin, Ireland

Madeleine McLeester

Roles Methodology, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Anthropology, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, United States of America

Scott Mooney

Roles Methodology, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation School of Biological, Earth and Environmental Sciences, UNSW Sydney, Sydney, Australia

Magdalena Moskal-del Hoyo

Roles Methodology, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation W. Szafer Institute of Botany, Polish Academy of Sciences, Warsaw, Poland

Vanessa Navarrete

Roles Methodology, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Prehistory, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, Bellaterra, Spain

Emmanuel Ndiema

Roles Methodology, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Earth Sciences, National Museums of Kenya, Nairobi, Kenya

Eduardo Góes Neves

Roles Methodology, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Laboratório de Arqueologia dos Trópicos, Museu de Arqueologia e Etnologia, Universidade de São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil

Marek Nowak

Roles Methodology, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Institute of Archaeology, Jagiellonian University, Kraków, Poland

Welmoed A. Out

Roles Methodology, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Archaeological Science and Conservation, Moesgaard Museum, Højbjerg, Denmark

Cameron Petrie

Roles Methodology, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations ICREA–Department of Humanities, Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona, Spain, McDonald Institute for Archaeological Research, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, United Kingdom

Leanne N. Phelps

Roles Methodology, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Tropical diversity, Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh, Edinburgh, United Kingdom, School of GeoSciences, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, United Kingdom

Zsolt Pinke

Roles Methodology, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Physical Geography, Eötvös Loránd University, Budapest, Hungary

Stéphen Rostain

Roles Methodology, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Centre national de la recherche scientifique, Nanterre, France

Thembi Russell

Roles Methodology, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation School of Geography, Archaeology and Environmental Studies, The University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa

Andrew Sluyter

Roles Methodology, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Geography and Anthropology, Louisana State University, Baton Rouge, Louisiana, United States of America

Amy K. Styring

Roles Methodology, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation School of Archaeology, University of Oxford, Oxford, United Kingdom

Eduardo Tamanaha

Roles Methodology, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Instituto de Desenvolvimento Sustentável Mamirauá, Amazonas, Brazil

Evert Thomas

Roles Methodology, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation The Alliance of Bioversity International and CIAT, Lima, Peru

Selvakumar Veerasamy

Roles Methodology, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Maritime History and Marine Archaeology, Tamil University, Tanjore, India

Lynn Welton

Roles Methodology, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation School of Geography, Archaeology and Environmental Studies, University of the Witwatersrand, Witwatersrand, South Africa

Marco Zanon

Roles Methodology, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Institute of Pre- and Protohistoric Archaeology, Kiel, Germany

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.