About the Authors

Ron Pinhasi

r.pinhasi@ucc.ie

Affiliation Department of Archaeology, University College Cork, Cork, Ireland

Boris Gasparian

Affiliation Institute of Archaeology and Ethnology, National Academy of Sciences, Yerevan, Armenia

Gregory Areshian

Affiliation Cotsen Institute of Archaeology, University of California Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California, United States of America

Diana Zardaryan

Affiliation Institute of Archaeology and Ethnology, National Academy of Sciences, Yerevan, Armenia

Alexia Smith

Affiliation Department of Anthropology, University of Connecticut, Storrs, Connecticut, United States of America

Guy Bar-Oz

Affiliation Zinman Institute of Archaeology, University of Haifa, Haifa, Israel

Thomas Higham

Affiliation Oxford Radiocarbon Accelerator Unit, University of Oxford, Oxford, United Kingdom

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: RP BG GA DZ. Performed the experiments: RP BG GA GBO TH. Analyzed the data: RP BG AS GBO TH. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: RP BG GBO. Wrote the paper: RP AS.