About the Authors

Abay Namen

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Investigation, Supervision, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft

abay.namen@nu.edu.kz (AN); iovita@nyu.edu (RI)

Affiliations Department of Sociology and Anthropology, School of Sciences and Humanities, Nazarbayev University, Astana, Kazakhstan, Early Prehistory and Quaternary Ecology, Department of Geosciences, University of Tübingen, Tübingen, Germany

Saine C. Hernandez Burgos

Contributed equally to this work with: Saine C. Hernandez Burgos

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

Affiliation Center for the Study of Human Origins, Department of Anthropology, New York University, New York, United States of America

Aristeidis Varis

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

Affiliations Early Prehistory and Quaternary Ecology, Department of Geosciences, University of Tübingen, Tübingen, Germany, Institute for Archaeological Sciences, Department of Geosciences, University of Tübingen, Tübingen, Germany

Emily Coco

Roles Investigation, Software, Visualization, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Center for the Study of Human Origins, Department of Anthropology, New York University, New York, United States of America

Rachel Kalisher

Roles Methodology, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Center for the Study of Human Origins, Department of Anthropology, New York University, New York, United States of America

Emily Gaul

Roles Formal analysis, Investigation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Archaeo- and Palaeogenetics, Institute for Archaeological Sciences, Department of Geosciences, University of Tübingen, Tübingen, Germany

Guido Alberto Gnecchi-Ruscone

Roles Formal analysis, Investigation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Senckenberg Centre for Human Evolution and Palaeoenvironment at the University of Tübingen, Tübingen, Germany

Maria A. Spyrou

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

Affiliations Archaeo- and Palaeogenetics, Institute for Archaeological Sciences, Department of Geosciences, University of Tübingen, Tübingen, Germany, Senckenberg Centre for Human Evolution and Palaeoenvironment at the University of Tübingen, Tübingen, Germany

Cosimo Posth

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

Affiliations Archaeo- and Palaeogenetics, Institute for Archaeological Sciences, Department of Geosciences, University of Tübingen, Tübingen, Germany, Senckenberg Centre for Human Evolution and Palaeoenvironment at the University of Tübingen, Tübingen, Germany

Susanne Lindauer

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

Affiliation Curt-Engelhorn-Centre for Archaeometry, Mannheim, Germany

David Naumann

Roles Investigation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Institute for Archaeological Sciences, Department of Geosciences, University of Tübingen, Tübingen, Germany

Scott A. Williams

Roles Methodology, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Center for the Study of Human Origins, Department of Anthropology, New York University, New York, United States of America

Zhaken Taimagambetov

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

Affiliation National Museum of the Republic of Kazakhstan, Astana, Kazakhstan

Radu Iovita

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Supervision, Validation, Writing – review & editing

abay.namen@nu.edu.kz (AN); iovita@nyu.edu (RI)

Affiliations Early Prehistory and Quaternary Ecology, Department of Geosciences, University of Tübingen, Tübingen, Germany, Center for the Study of Human Origins, Department of Anthropology, New York University, New York, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.