About the Authors

Jacopo Gennai

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Visualization, Writing – original draft

jacopo.gennai@cfs.unipi.it

Affiliation Department of Civilisations and Forms of Knowledge, University of Pisa, Pisa, Italy

Tom Higham

Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Resources, Supervision, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft

Affiliations Department of Evolutionary Anthropology, University of Vienna, Vienna, Austria, Human Evolution and Archaeological Science (HEAS), Vienna, Austria

Marco Romboni

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Methodology, Writing – original draft

Affiliations Department of Environmental Biology, University of Rome ‘La Sapienza’, Rome, Italy, Department of Biology, University of Pisa, Pisa, Italy

Angelica Fiorillo

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

Affiliations Department of History, Culture and Society, University of Rome ‘Tor Vergata’, Rome, Italy, Department of Cultural Heritage, University of Bologna, Bologna, Italy

Maddalena Giannì

Roles Formal analysis, Investigation, Writing – original draft

Affiliations Department of Evolutionary Anthropology, University of Vienna, Vienna, Austria, Human Evolution and Archaeological Science (HEAS), Vienna, Austria

Laura van der Sluis

Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Writing – original draft

Affiliations Department of Evolutionary Anthropology, University of Vienna, Vienna, Austria, Human Evolution and Archaeological Science (HEAS), Vienna, Austria

Damiano Marchi

Roles Funding acquisition, Resources, Supervision, Writing – original draft

Affiliations Department of Biology, University of Pisa, Pisa, Italy, Centre for the Exploration of the Deep Human Journey, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa

Elisabetta Starnini

Roles Funding acquisition, Resources, Supervision, Writing – original draft

Affiliation Department of Civilisations and Forms of Knowledge, University of Pisa, Pisa, Italy

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.