About the Authors

Stefano Biagetti

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

stefano.biagetti@upf.edu

Affiliations CaSEs Research Group, Department of Humanities, Universitat Pompeu Fabra, IMF-CSIC, Barcelona, Spain, School of Geography, Archaeology and Environmental Studies (GAES), University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa

Jonas Alcaina-Mateos

Roles Formal analysis, Methodology, Software, Visualization

Affiliation CaSEs Research Group, Department of Humanities, Universitat Pompeu Fabra, IMF-CSIC, Barcelona, Spain

Abel Ruiz-Giralt

Roles Formal analysis, Investigation, Visualization

Affiliation CaSEs Research Group, Department of Humanities, Universitat Pompeu Fabra, IMF-CSIC, Barcelona, Spain

Carla Lancelotti

Roles Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Visualization, Writing – original draft

Affiliations CaSEs Research Group, Department of Humanities, Universitat Pompeu Fabra, IMF-CSIC, Barcelona, Spain, ICREA, Passeig Lluís Companys 23, Barcelona, Spain

Patricia Groenewald

Roles Data curation, Investigation, Writing – original draft

Affiliation Department of Archaeology, University of Cape Town, Cape Town, South Africa

Jordi Ibañez-Insa

Roles Investigation, Validation

Affiliation Geosciences Barcelona (GEO3BCN), CSIC, Barcelona, Spain

Shira Gur-Arie

Roles Investigation, Writing – original draft

Affiliations CaSEs Research Group, Department of Humanities, Universitat Pompeu Fabra, IMF-CSIC, Barcelona, Spain, Department of Maritime Civilizations, University of Haifa, Haifa, Israel

Fred Morton

Roles Funding acquisition, Investigation, Writing – original draft

Affiliation Department of History, University of Botswana, Gaborone, Botswana

Stefania Merlo

Roles Data curation, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Visualization, Writing – original draft

Affiliation McDonald Institute for Archaeological Research, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, United Kingdom

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.