About the Authors

Charles Le Moyne

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

lemoyne@shh.mpg.de

Affiliations School of Social Science, The University of Queensland, Saint Lucia, QLD, Australia, Department of Archaeology, Max Planck Institute of Geoanthropology, Jena, Germany

Patrick Roberts

Roles Supervision, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations School of Social Science, The University of Queensland, Saint Lucia, QLD, Australia, Department of Archaeology, Max Planck Institute of Geoanthropology, Jena, Germany, isoTROPIC Research Group, Max Planck Institute of Geoanthropology, Jena, Germany

Quan Hua

Roles Formal analysis, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations School of Social Science, The University of Queensland, Saint Lucia, QLD, Australia, Australian Nuclear Science and Technology Organisation (ANSTO), Kirrawee DC, NSW, Australia

Madeleine Bleasdale

Roles Resources, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Department of Archaeology, Max Planck Institute of Geoanthropology, Jena, Germany, Department of Archaeology, University of York, York, United Kingdom

Jocelyne Desideri

Roles Resources, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Laboratory of African Archaeology and Anthropology, Section of Biology, University of Geneva, Geneva, Switzerland

Nicole Boivin

Roles Writing – review & editing

Affiliations School of Social Science, The University of Queensland, Saint Lucia, QLD, Australia, Department of Archaeology, Max Planck Institute of Geoanthropology, Jena, Germany

Alison Crowther

Roles Supervision, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations School of Social Science, The University of Queensland, Saint Lucia, QLD, Australia, Department of Archaeology, Max Planck Institute of Geoanthropology, Jena, Germany

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.