About the Authors

Ron Pinhasi

ron.pinhasi@ucd.ie

Affiliation School of Archaeology and Earth Institute, Belfield, University College Dublin, Dublin 4, Ireland

Daniel Fernandes

Affiliation School of Archaeology and Earth Institute, Belfield, University College Dublin, Dublin 4, Ireland

Kendra Sirak

Affiliation Department of Anthropology, Emory University, Atlanta, Georgia, United States of America

Mario Novak

Affiliation School of Archaeology and Earth Institute, Belfield, University College Dublin, Dublin 4, Ireland

Sarah Connell

Affiliation School of Archaeology and Earth Institute, Belfield, University College Dublin, Dublin 4, Ireland

Songül Alpaslan-Roodenberg

Affiliation independent researcher, Santpoort-Noord, The Netherlands

Fokke Gerritsen

Affiliation Netherlands Institute in Turkey, Istiklal Caddesi, Nur-i Ziya Sokak 5, Beyoğlu, Istanbul, Turkey

Vyacheslav Moiseyev

Affiliation Peter the Great Museum of Anthropology and Ethnography (Kunstkamera), Russian Academy of Sciences, Universitetskaya Nab. 3, St. Petersburg, Russia

Andrey Gromov

Affiliation Peter the Great Museum of Anthropology and Ethnography (Kunstkamera), Russian Academy of Sciences, Universitetskaya Nab. 3, St. Petersburg, Russia

Pál Raczky

Affiliation Eötvös Loránd University University, Faculty of Humanities, Institute of Archaeological Sciences, Múzeum körút 4/b, Budapest, Hungary

Alexandra Anders

Affiliation Eötvös Loránd University University, Faculty of Humanities, Institute of Archaeological Sciences, Múzeum körút 4/b, Budapest, Hungary

Michael Pietrusewsky

Affiliation Department of Anthropology, University of Hawaii at Manoa, Honolulu, Hawaii, United States of America

Gary Rollefson

Affiliation Whitman College, Walla Walla, Washington, United States of America

Marija Jovanovic

Affiliation Museum of Vojvodina, 21 000 Novi Sad, Ulica Dunavska 35, Serbia

Hiep Trinhhoang

Affiliation Institute of Archaeology, Hoan Kiem District, Hanoi, Vietnam

Guy Bar-Oz

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

Marc Oxenham

Affiliation School of Archaeology and Anthropology, Australian National University, Canberra, Australia

Hirofumi Matsumura

Affiliation School of Health Science, Sapporo Medical University, Sapporo, Japan

Michael Hofreiter

Affiliations Institute for Biochemistry and Biology, Faculty for Mathematics and Natural Sciences, University of Potsdam, Karl-Liebknechtstr. 24–25, 14476 Potsdam Golm, Germany, Department of Biology, University of York, Wentworth Way, Heslington, York, United Kingdom

Competing Interests

SAR is a self employed freelance osteologist. There are no patents, products in development or marketed products to declare. This does not alter the authors' adherence to all the PLOS ONE policies on sharing data and materials.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: RP DF KS MN SC GB MH. Performed the experiments: RP DF KS MN SC MH. Analyzed the data: RP DF KS MN SC MH. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: SA-R FG VM AG PR AA MP GR MJ HT MO HM. Wrote the paper: RP DF KS MN SC SA-R FG VM AG PR AA MP GR MJ HT GB MO HM.