About the Authors

Alice Rodriguez

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

aar596@nyu.edu (AR); iovita@nyu.edu (RI)

Affiliation Anthrotopography Laboratory, Center for the Study of Human Origins, Department of Anthropology, New York University, New York, New York, United States of America

Kaushik Yanamandra

Roles Investigation

Affiliation Composite Materials and Mechanics Laboratory, Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering Department, New York University, Tandon School of Engineering, Brooklyn, New York, United States of America

Lukasz Witek

Roles Investigation

Affiliations Department of Biomaterials and Biomimetics, New York University College of Dentistry, New York, New York, United States of America, Department of Biomedical Engineering, New York University Tandon School of Engineering, New York, New York, United States of America

Zhong Wang

Roles Investigation

Affiliation Department of Biomaterials and Biomimetics, New York University College of Dentistry, New York, New York, United States of America

Rakesh K. Behera

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

Affiliation Composite Materials and Mechanics Laboratory, Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering Department, New York University, Tandon School of Engineering, Brooklyn, New York, United States of America

Radu Iovita

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

aar596@nyu.edu (AR); iovita@nyu.edu (RI)

Affiliations Anthrotopography Laboratory, Center for the Study of Human Origins, Department of Anthropology, New York University, New York, New York, United States of America, Department of Early Prehistory and Quaternary Ecology, Eberhard Karls University of Tübingen, Tübingen, Germany

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.