About the Authors

Sonia Nath

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

sonia.nath@adelaide.edu.au (SN); Lsw132@psu.edu.au (LSW)

Affiliation Australian Research Centre for Population Oral Health, Adelaide Dental School, The University of Adelaide, SA, Australia

Peter Zilm

Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Methodology, Project administration, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Oral Microbiology Laboratory, Adelaide Dental School, The University of Adelaide, Adelaide, SA, Australia

Lisa Jamieson

Roles Supervision, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Australian Research Centre for Population Oral Health, Adelaide Dental School, The University of Adelaide, SA, Australia

Kostas Kapellas

Roles Methodology, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Australian Research Centre for Population Oral Health, Adelaide Dental School, The University of Adelaide, SA, Australia

Nirmal Goswami

Roles Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Materials Chemistry Department, CSIR-Institute of Minerals and Materials Technology, Acharya Vihar, Bhubaneswar, India

Kevin Ketagoda

Roles Formal analysis, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Oral Microbiology Laboratory, Adelaide Dental School, The University of Adelaide, Adelaide, SA, Australia

Laura S. Weyrich

Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Methodology, Project administration, Supervision, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

sonia.nath@adelaide.edu.au (SN); Lsw132@psu.edu.au (LSW)

Affiliations Department of Anthropology and the Huck Institutes of the Life Sciences, The Pennsylvania State University, University Park, PA, United States of America, Australian Centre for Ancient DNA, School of Biological Sciences and the Environment Institute, University of Adelaide, Adelaide, SA, Australia

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exists.