About the Authors

Nyree Manoukian

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

nyree.manoukian@arch.ox.ac.uk

Affiliation Research Laboratory for Archaeology and the History of Art, University of Oxford, Oxford, United Kingdom

Helen L. Whelton

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

Affiliation Organic Geochemistry Unit, School of Chemistry, University of Bristol, Bristol, United Kingdom

Julie Dunne

Roles Validation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Organic Geochemistry Unit, School of Chemistry, University of Bristol, Bristol, United Kingdom

Ruben Badalyan

Roles Resources, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Institute of Archaeology and Ethnography, National Academy of Sciences, Yerevan, Armenia

Adam T. Smith

Roles Resources, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Anthropology, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York, United States of America

Hakob Simonyan

Roles Resources, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Scientific Research Center of the Historical and Cultural Heritage, Ministry of Culture, Yerevan, Armenia

Mitchell S. Rothman

Roles Resources, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Anthropology, Widener University, Chester, Pennsylvania, United States of America

Arsen Bobokhyan

Roles Resources, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Institute of Archaeology and Ethnography, National Academy of Sciences, Yerevan, Armenia

Roman Hovsepyan

Roles Resources, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Institute of Archaeology and Ethnography, National Academy of Sciences, Yerevan, Armenia

Pavel Avetisyan

Roles Resources, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Institute of Archaeology and Ethnography, National Academy of Sciences, Yerevan, Armenia

Richard P. Evershed

Roles Methodology, Validation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Organic Geochemistry Unit, School of Chemistry, University of Bristol, Bristol, United Kingdom

A. Mark Pollard

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

Affiliation Research Laboratory for Archaeology and the History of Art, University of Oxford, Oxford, United Kingdom

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.