About the Authors

Andrew W. Kandel

Contributed equally to this work with: Andrew W. Kandel, Christian Sommer, Zara Kanaeva, Miriam N. Haidle, Volker Hochschild

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

a.kandel@uni-tuebingen.de

Affiliation The Role of Culture in Early Expansions of Humans, Heidelberg Academy of Sciences and Humanities, Tübingen, Germany

Christian Sommer

Contributed equally to this work with: Andrew W. Kandel, Christian Sommer, Zara Kanaeva, Miriam N. Haidle, Volker Hochschild

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

Affiliation The Role of Culture in Early Expansions of Humans, Heidelberg Academy of Sciences and Humanities, Tübingen, Germany

Zara Kanaeva

Contributed equally to this work with: Andrew W. Kandel, Christian Sommer, Zara Kanaeva, Miriam N. Haidle, Volker Hochschild

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

Affiliation The Role of Culture in Early Expansions of Humans, Heidelberg Academy of Sciences and Humanities, Tübingen, Germany

Michael Bolus

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

‡ MB, AAB, CH, MM and MM also contributed equally to this work.

Affiliations The Role of Culture in Early Expansions of Humans, Heidelberg Academy of Sciences and Humanities, Tübingen, Germany, Department of Geosciences, Working Group Early Prehistory and Quaternary Ecology, University of Tübingen, Tübingen, Germany

Angela A. Bruch

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

‡ MB, AAB, CH, MM and MM also contributed equally to this work.

Affiliation The Role of Culture in Early Expansions of Humans, Senckenberg Forschungsinstitut, Heidelberg Academy of Sciences and Humanities, Frankfurt/Main, Germany

Claudia Groth

Roles Project administration

Affiliation The Role of Culture in Early Expansions of Humans, Senckenberg Forschungsinstitut, Heidelberg Academy of Sciences and Humanities, Frankfurt/Main, Germany

Miriam N. Haidle

Contributed equally to this work with: Andrew W. Kandel, Christian Sommer, Zara Kanaeva, Miriam N. Haidle, Volker Hochschild

Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Department of Geosciences, Working Group Early Prehistory and Quaternary Ecology, University of Tübingen, Tübingen, Germany, The Role of Culture in Early Expansions of Humans, Senckenberg Forschungsinstitut, Heidelberg Academy of Sciences and Humanities, Frankfurt/Main, Germany

Christine Hertler

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

‡ MB, AAB, CH, MM and MM also contributed equally to this work.

Affiliation The Role of Culture in Early Expansions of Humans, Senckenberg Forschungsinstitut, Heidelberg Academy of Sciences and Humanities, Frankfurt/Main, Germany

Julia Heß

Roles Project administration

Affiliation The Role of Culture in Early Expansions of Humans, Senckenberg Forschungsinstitut, Heidelberg Academy of Sciences and Humanities, Frankfurt/Main, Germany

Maria Malina

Roles Conceptualization, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Visualization, Writing – review & editing

‡ MB, AAB, CH, MM and MM also contributed equally to this work.

Affiliation The Role of Culture in Early Expansions of Humans, Heidelberg Academy of Sciences and Humanities, Tübingen, Germany

Michael Märker

Roles Methodology, Writing – review & editing

‡ MB, AAB, CH, MM and MM also contributed equally to this work.

Affiliations Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences, University of Pavia, Pavia, Italy, Working Group on “Soil Erosion and Feedbacks”, Leibniz Centre for Agricultural Landscape Research (ZALF), Müncheberg, Germany

Volker Hochschild

Contributed equally to this work with: Andrew W. Kandel, Christian Sommer, Zara Kanaeva, Miriam N. Haidle, Volker Hochschild

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

Affiliation Institute of Geography, Department of Geosciences, University of Tübingen, Tübingen, Germany

Volker Mosbrugger

Roles Funding acquisition

Affiliation The Role of Culture in Early Expansions of Humans, Senckenberg Forschungsinstitut, Heidelberg Academy of Sciences and Humanities, Frankfurt/Main, Germany

Friedemann Schrenk

Roles Funding acquisition, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation The Role of Culture in Early Expansions of Humans, Senckenberg Forschungsinstitut, Heidelberg Academy of Sciences and Humanities, Frankfurt/Main, Germany

Nicholas J. Conard

Roles Funding acquisition, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Geosciences, Working Group Early Prehistory and Quaternary Ecology, University of Tübingen, Tübingen, Germany

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.