About the Authors

Charlotte Pruvost

Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Visualization, Writing – original draft

Affiliation Laboratory Archaeology of Africa & Anthropology (ARCAN), Faculty of Sciences, University of Geneva, Geneva, Switzerland

Eric Huysecom

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

Affiliation Laboratory Archaeology of Africa & Anthropology (ARCAN), Faculty of Sciences, University of Geneva, Geneva, Switzerland

Aline Garnier

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

Affiliation Laboratory of Physical Geography (LGP), University of Paris-Est Créteil, France

Irka Hajdas

Roles Formal analysis, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Laboratory of Ion Beam Physics, ETH Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland

Alexa Höhn

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

Affiliation Institut für Archäologische Wissenschaften, Archäobotanik Afrikas, Goethe Universität, Frankfurt am Main, Germany

Laurent Lespez

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

Affiliation Laboratory of Physical Geography (LGP), University of Paris-Est Créteil, France

Michel Rasse

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

Affiliation Laboratory Archéorient, Université Lumière – Lyon 2, Lyon, France

Katja Douze

Roles Methodology, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Laboratory Archaeology of Africa & Anthropology (ARCAN), Faculty of Sciences, University of Geneva, Geneva, Switzerland

Sylvain Soriano

Roles Methodology, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation UMR 7041 ArScAn/ AnTET, University of Paris Nanterre, France

Valentine Fichet

Roles Formal analysis, Writing – original draft

Affiliation Laboratory of Physical Geography (LGP), University of Paris-Est Créteil, France

Ségolène Saulnier-Copard

Roles Formal analysis, Writing – original draft

Affiliation Laboratory of Physical Geography (LGP), University of Paris-Est Créteil, France

Matar Ndiaye

Roles Project administration, Resources

Affiliation Fundamental Institute of Black Africa (IFAN), University Cheikh Anta Diop (UCAD), Dakar, Senegal

Anne Mayor

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

anne.mayor@unige.ch

Affiliations Laboratory Archaeology of Africa & Anthropology (ARCAN), Faculty of Sciences, University of Geneva, Geneva, Switzerland, Global Studies Institute (GSI), University of Geneva, Geneva, Switzerland

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.