About the Authors

Jaruschka Pecnik

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

jaruschka.pecnik@uzh.ch (JP); shevan.wilkin@iem.uzh.ch (SW)

Affiliations Institute of Evolutionary Medicine, University of Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland, Department of Environmental Sciences, University of Basel, Basel, Switzerland

Alicia R. Ventresca Miller

Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Resources, Validation, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Department of Anthropology, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan, United States of America, University of Michigan Museum of Anthropological Archaeology, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan, United States of America, Department of Archaeology, Max Planck Institute for Geoanthropology, Jena, Germany

Christian Panse

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

Affiliations Functional Genomics Centre Zurich (FGCZ), ETH and University of Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland, Swiss Institute of Bioinformatics (SIB), University of Lausanne, Lausanne, Switzerland

Laura Kunz

Roles Methodology, Validation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Functional Genomics Centre Zurich (FGCZ), ETH and University of Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland

Antje Dittmann

Roles Methodology, Validation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Functional Genomics Centre Zurich (FGCZ), ETH and University of Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland

James A. Johnson

Roles Resources, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Anthropology, University of Wyoming, Laramie, Wyoming, United States of America

Sergey Makhortykh

Roles Resources, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Institute of Archaeology of the National Academy of Sciences Ukraine, Kyiv, Ukraine

Ludmilla Litvinova

Roles Resources, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Institute of Archaeology of the National Academy of Sciences Ukraine, Kyiv, Ukraine

Svetlana Andrukh

Roles Resources, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Zaporizhzhya National University, Zaporizhzhya, Ukraine

Gennady Toschev

Roles Resources, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Zaporizhzhya National University, Zaporizhzhya, Ukraine

Michael Krützen

Roles Resources, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Evolutionary Anthropology, University of Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland

Verena J. Schuenemann

Roles Resources, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Institute of Evolutionary Medicine, University of Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland, Department of Environmental Sciences, University of Basel, Basel, Switzerland, Department of Evolutionary Anthropology, University of Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland, Department of Evolutionary Anthropology, University of Vienna, Vienna, Austria, Human Evolution and Archaeological Sciences (HEAS), University of Vienna, Vienna, Austria

Shevan Wilkin

Roles Conceptualization, Investigation, Project administration, Supervision, Validation, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

jaruschka.pecnik@uzh.ch (JP); shevan.wilkin@iem.uzh.ch (SW)

Affiliations Institute of Evolutionary Medicine, University of Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland, Department of Environmental Sciences, University of Basel, Basel, Switzerland, Department of Archaeology, Max Planck Institute for Geoanthropology, Jena, Germany, Australian Research Centre for Human Evolution, Griffith University, Brisbane, Queensland, Australia

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.