About the Authors

Virginie Volpato

Affiliation Department of Paleoanthropology and Messel Research, Senckenberg Research Institute Frankfurt, Frankfurt am Main, Germany

Roberto Macchiarelli

Affiliations Département de Préhistoire, UMR 7194, MNHN, Paris, France, Département Géosciences, Université de Poitiers, Poitiers, France

Debbie Guatelli-Steinberg

Affiliation Department of Anthropology, The Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio, United States of America

Ivana Fiore

Affiliation Soprintendenza al Museo Nazionale Preistorico Etnografico “L. Pigorini”, Rome, Italy

Luca Bondioli

Affiliation Soprintendenza al Museo Nazionale Preistorico Etnografico “L. Pigorini”, Rome, Italy

David W. Frayer

frayer@ku.edu

Affiliations Soprintendenza al Museo Nazionale Preistorico Etnografico “L. Pigorini”, Rome, Italy, Department of Anthropology, University of Kansas, Lawrence, Kansas, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: VV RM LB DWF. Performed the experiments: VV RM IF LB. Analyzed the data: DWF VV RM LB. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: DG-S VV RM LB. Wrote the paper: DWF VV RM LB DG-S.