About the Authors

Nicholas V. Kessler

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

nvkessler@arizona.edu

Affiliation Laboratory of Tree-Ring Research, University of Arizona, Tucson, United States of America

Erin M. Benson

Contributed equally to this work with: Erin M. Benson, Timothy R. Pauketat

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

Affiliation Illinois State Archaeological Survey, University of Illinois, Urbana, United States of America

Timothy R. Pauketat

Contributed equally to this work with: Erin M. Benson, Timothy R. Pauketat

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

Affiliation Illinois State Archaeological Survey, University of Illinois, Urbana, United States of America

Jason D. Kirk

Roles Methodology, Writing – original draft

Affiliation Department of Geosciences, University of Arizona, Tucson, United States of America

Matthew D. Therrell

Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Writing – original draft

Affiliation Department of Geography, University of Alabama, Tuscaloosa, Alabama, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.