About the Authors

Raffaella Bianucci

Affiliations Department of Public Health and Paediatric Sciences, Legal Medicine Section, Laboratory of Physical Anthropology, University of Turin, Turin, Italy, Centre for Ecological and Evolutionary Synthesis (CEES), Department Biosciences, University of Oslo, Oslo, Norway, Laboratoire d’Anthropologie bio-culturelle, Droit, Etique & Santé (Adés), Faculté de Médecine de Marseille, Marseille, France

Michael E. Habicht

Affiliation Institute of Evolutionary Medicine, University of Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland

Stephen Buckley

Affiliation BioArCh, University of York, York, United Kingdom

Joann Fletcher

Affiliation BioArCh, University of York, York, United Kingdom

Roger Seiler

Affiliation Institute of Evolutionary Medicine, University of Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland

Lena M. Öhrström

Affiliation Department of Radiology, University Hospital Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland

Eleni Vassilika

Affiliation Fondazione Museo delle Antichità Egizie di Torino, Turin, Italy

Thomas Böni

Affiliation Institute of Evolutionary Medicine, University of Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland

Frank J. Rühli

frank.ruehli@iem.uzh.ch

Affiliation Institute of Evolutionary Medicine, University of Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland

Competing Interests

The authors have the following interests. Funding for the chemical research was provided by Pharos Research. 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, as detailed online in the guide for authors.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: RB MEH SB FJR. Performed the experiments: RB MEH SB RS LMO EV FJR. Analyzed the data: RB MEH SB JF RS LMO EV TB FJR. Wrote the paper: RB MEH SB JF RS LMO EV TB FJR.