About the Authors

Laura Longo

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Supervision, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

laura.longo@unive.it (LL); mauro.veronese.2@phd.unipd.it (MV)

Affiliation Department of Environmental Science, Informatics and Statistics (DAIS), Ca’ Foscari University of Venice, Mestre, Venice, Italy

Mauro Veronese

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

laura.longo@unive.it (LL); mauro.veronese.2@phd.unipd.it (MV)

Affiliations Department of Geosciences, University of Padua, Padova, Padova, Italy, Department of Chemical Sciences, University of Padua, Padova, Padova, Italy

Clarissa Cagnato

Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Department of Environmental Science, Informatics and Statistics (DAIS), Ca’ Foscari University of Venice, Mestre, Venice, Italy, UMR 7268 Anthropologie Bio-Culturelle, Droit, Éthique et Santé (ADES), Aix-Marseille Université, Marseille, France

Giusi Sorrentino

Roles Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Visualization, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Environmental Science, Informatics and Statistics (DAIS), Ca’ Foscari University of Venice, Mestre, Venice, Italy

Ana Tetruashvili

Roles Formal analysis

Affiliation The Faculty of Law, Education, Business and Technology, European University, Tbilisi, Georgia

Anna Belfer-Cohen

Roles Resources, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Institute of Archaeology, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Jerusalem, Israel

Nino Jakeli

Roles Resources

Affiliation Georgian National Museum, Tbilisi, Georgia

Tengiz Meshveliani

Roles Resources

Affiliation Institute of Paleoanthropology and Paleobiology, Georgian National Museum, Tbilisi, Georgia

Moreno Meneghetti

Roles Funding acquisition, Methodology, Resources, Validation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Chemical Sciences, University of Padua, Padova, Padova, Italy

Alfonso Zoleo

Roles Funding acquisition, Methodology, Resources

Affiliation Department of Chemical Sciences, University of Padua, Padova, Padova, Italy

Antonio Marcomini

Roles Funding acquisition, Resources

Affiliation Department of Environmental Science, Informatics and Statistics (DAIS), Ca’ Foscari University of Venice, Mestre, Venice, Italy

Gilberto Artioli

Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Geosciences, University of Padua, Padova, Padova, Italy

Elena Badetti

Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Validation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Environmental Science, Informatics and Statistics (DAIS), Ca’ Foscari University of Venice, Mestre, Venice, Italy

Karen Hardy

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

Affiliation Department of Archaeology, The University of Glasgow, Glasgow, United Kingdom

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.