About the Authors

Carey J. Garland

Contributed equally to this work with: Carey J. Garland, Victor D. Thompson

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

carey.garland@uga.edu

Affiliation Department of Anthropology, Laboratory of Archaeology, University of Georgia, Athens, Georgia, United States of America

Victor D. Thompson

Contributed equally to this work with: Carey J. Garland, Victor D. Thompson

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Anthropology, Laboratory of Archaeology, University of Georgia, Athens, Georgia, United States of America

Matthew C. Sanger

Roles Funding acquisition, Writing – review & editing

‡ These authors also contributed equally to this work.

Affiliation National Museum of the American Indian, Washington, D.C., United States of America

Karen Y. Smith

Roles Funding acquisition, Resources, Writing – review & editing

‡ These authors also contributed equally to this work.

Affiliation South Carolina Department of Natural Resources, Columbia, South Carolina, United States of America

Fred T. Andrus

Roles Resources, Writing – review & editing

‡ These authors also contributed equally to this work.

Affiliation Department of Geological Sciences, University of Alabama, Tuscaloosa, Alabama, United States of America

Nathan R. Lawres

Roles Resources, Writing – review & editing

‡ These authors also contributed equally to this work.

Affiliation Department of Anthropology and Antonio J. Waring Jr. Laboratory of Archaeology, University of West Georgia, Carrolton, Georgia, United States of America

Katharine G. Napora

Roles Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

‡ These authors also contributed equally to this work.

Affiliation Department of Anthropology, Office of State Archaeology, William S. Webb Museum of Anthropology, University of Kentucky, Lexington, Kentucky, United States of America

Carol E. Colaninno

Roles Formal analysis, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

‡ These authors also contributed equally to this work.

Affiliation Center for STEM Research, Education, and Outreach, Southern Illinois University Edwardsville, Edwardsville, Illinois, United States of America

J. Matthew Compton

Roles Formal analysis, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

‡ These authors also contributed equally to this work.

Affiliation Department of Sociology and Anthropology, Georgia Southern University, Statesboro, Georgia, United States of America

Sharyn Jones

Roles Writing – review & editing

‡ These authors also contributed equally to this work.

Affiliation Department of Anthropology, 217 Landrum Academic Center, Northern Kentucky University, Highland Heights, Kentucky, United States of America

Carla S. Hadden

Roles Formal analysis, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

‡ These authors also contributed equally to this work.

Affiliation Center for Applied Isotope Studies, University of Georgia, Athens, Georgia, United States of America

Alexander Cherkinsky

Roles Formal analysis, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

‡ These authors also contributed equally to this work.

Affiliation Center for Applied Isotope Studies, University of Georgia, Athens, Georgia, United States of America

Thomas Maddox

Roles Formal analysis, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

‡ These authors also contributed equally to this work.

Affiliation Center for Applied Isotope Studies, University of Georgia, Athens, Georgia, United States of America

Yi-Ting Deng

Roles Formal analysis, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

‡ These authors also contributed equally to this work.

Affiliation Center for Applied Isotope Studies, University of Georgia, Athens, Georgia, United States of America

Isabelle H. Lulewicz

Roles Methodology, Writing – review & editing

‡ These authors also contributed equally to this work.

Affiliation Illinois State Archaeological Survey, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Collinsville, Illinois, United States of America

Lindsey Parsons

Roles Methodology, Writing – review & editing

‡ These authors also contributed equally to this work.

Affiliation Department of Anthropology, Laboratory of Archaeology, University of Georgia, Athens, Georgia, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.