About the Authors

Lisette M. Kootker

Contributed equally to this work with: Lisette M. Kootker, Linda Mbeki

lisette.kootker@vu.nl (LMK); l.mbeki@vu.nl (LM)

Affiliations Geology & Geochemistry Cluster, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, Amsterdam, the Netherlands, Research Institute for Culture, History and Heritage (CLUE+), Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, Amsterdam, the Netherlands

Linda Mbeki

Contributed equally to this work with: Lisette M. Kootker, Linda Mbeki

lisette.kootker@vu.nl (LMK); l.mbeki@vu.nl (LM)

Affiliation Research Institute for Culture, History and Heritage (CLUE+), Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, Amsterdam, the Netherlands

Alan G. Morris

Affiliation Department of Human Biology, Faculty of Health Sciences, University of Cape Town, Cape Town, South Africa

Henk Kars

Affiliation Research Institute for Culture, History and Heritage (CLUE+), Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, Amsterdam, the Netherlands

Gareth R. Davies

Affiliation Geology & Geochemistry Cluster, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, Amsterdam, the Netherlands

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: LMK LM. Performed the experiments: LMK. Analyzed the data: LMK LM. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: AGM GRD. Wrote the paper: LMK LM. Supervised the project: HK GRD.