About the Authors

Giulio Lucarini

Contributed equally to this work with: Giulio Lucarini, Maria Guagnin

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

guagnin@shh.mpg.de (MG); giulio.lucarini@cnr.it (GL)

Affiliations Institute of Heritage Science, National Research Council of Italy, Rome, Italy, Department of Asian, African, and Mediterranean Studies, University of Naples L’Orientale, Naples, Italy

Maria Guagnin

Contributed equally to this work with: Giulio Lucarini, Maria Guagnin

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

guagnin@shh.mpg.de (MG); giulio.lucarini@cnr.it (GL)

Affiliation Department of Archaeology, Max Planck Institute of Geoanthropology, Jena, Germany

Ceri Shipton

Roles Conceptualization, Investigation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Institute of Archaeology, University College London, London, United Kingdom

Anita Radini

Roles Investigation

Affiliation School of Archaeology, University College Dublin, Dublin, Ireland

Abdullah M. Alsharekh

Roles Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Archaeology, College of Tourism and Archaeology, King Saud University, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia

Michael Petraglia

Roles Funding acquisition, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Australian Research Centre for Human Evolution, Griffith University, Nathan, Australia, School of Social Science, University of Queensland, St Lucia, Australia, Human Origins Program, National Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C., United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.