About the Authors

Yue Li

Contributed equally to this work with: Yue Li, Chengrui Zhang, Zexian Huang

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

liyue@nwu.edu.cn (YL); 13319185059@163.com (JW)

Affiliations School of Cultural Heritage, Northwest University, Xi’an, China, Collaborative Research Center on Silk Road Archaeology, Northwest University, Xi’an, China, Ministry of Science and Technology “One Belt, One Road” Joint Laboratory of Human and Environment in China and Central Asia, Northwest University, Xi’an, China

Chengrui Zhang

Contributed equally to this work with: Yue Li, Chengrui Zhang, Zexian Huang

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

Affiliation Department of Anthropology, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, United States of America

Zexian Huang

Contributed equally to this work with: Yue Li, Chengrui Zhang, Zexian Huang

Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Writing – original draft

Affiliations School of Cultural Heritage, Northwest University, Xi’an, China, Collaborative Research Center on Silk Road Archaeology, Northwest University, Xi’an, China, Ministry of Science and Technology “One Belt, One Road” Joint Laboratory of Human and Environment in China and Central Asia, Northwest University, Xi’an, China

Huan Liu

Roles Data curation, Formal analysis

Affiliation School of Resource, Environment, and Historical Culture, Xianyang Normal University, Xianyang, China

Meng Ren

Roles Resources

Affiliations School of Cultural Heritage, Northwest University, Xi’an, China, Collaborative Research Center on Silk Road Archaeology, Northwest University, Xi’an, China, Ministry of Science and Technology “One Belt, One Road” Joint Laboratory of Human and Environment in China and Central Asia, Northwest University, Xi’an, China

Tongyuan Xi

Roles Resources

Affiliations School of Cultural Heritage, Northwest University, Xi’an, China, Collaborative Research Center on Silk Road Archaeology, Northwest University, Xi’an, China, Ministry of Science and Technology “One Belt, One Road” Joint Laboratory of Human and Environment in China and Central Asia, Northwest University, Xi’an, China

Jian Ma

Roles Conceptualization, Resources

Affiliations School of Cultural Heritage, Northwest University, Xi’an, China, Collaborative Research Center on Silk Road Archaeology, Northwest University, Xi’an, China, Ministry of Science and Technology “One Belt, One Road” Joint Laboratory of Human and Environment in China and Central Asia, Northwest University, Xi’an, China

Jianxin Wang

Roles Conceptualization, Resources, Writing – review & editing

liyue@nwu.edu.cn (YL); 13319185059@163.com (JW)

Affiliations School of Cultural Heritage, Northwest University, Xi’an, China, Collaborative Research Center on Silk Road Archaeology, Northwest University, Xi’an, China, Ministry of Science and Technology “One Belt, One Road” Joint Laboratory of Human and Environment in China and Central Asia, Northwest University, Xi’an, China

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.