About the Authors

Savino di Lernia

Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Supervision, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Dipartimento di Scienze dell’Antichità, Sapienza University of Rome, Rome, Italy, GAES, University of Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa

Fabrizio Buldrini

Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Writing – original draft

Affiliation Dipartimento di Scienze Biologiche, Geologiche e Ambientali, Università di Bologna, Bologna, Italy

Assunta Florenzano

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

assunta.florenzano@unimore.it (AF); rotunno.rocco@gmail.com (RR)

Affiliation Laboratorio di Palinologia e Paleobotanica, Dipartimento di Scienze della Vita, Università di Modena e Reggio Emilia, Modena, Italy

Anna Maria Mercuri

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

Affiliation Laboratorio di Palinologia e Paleobotanica, Dipartimento di Scienze della Vita, Università di Modena e Reggio Emilia, Modena, Italy

Varinia Nardi

Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Visualization, Writing – original draft

Affiliation The Archaeological Mission in the Sahara, Sapienza University of Rome, Rome, Italy

Rocco Rotunno

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

assunta.florenzano@unimore.it (AF); rotunno.rocco@gmail.com (RR)

Affiliation Dipartimento di Scienze dell’Antichità, Sapienza University of Rome, Rome, Italy

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.