About the Authors

Donatella Usai

donatellausaisalvatori@gmail.com

Affiliation Centro Studi Sudanesi e Sub-Sahariani (CSSeS), Treviso, Italy

Lara Maritan

Contributed equally to this work with: Lara Maritan, Gregorio Dal Sasso, Gilberto Artioli, Sandro Salvatori, Tina Jakob, Tiziana Salviato

Affiliation Department of Geosciences, University of Padova, Padova, Italy

Gregorio Dal Sasso

Contributed equally to this work with: Lara Maritan, Gregorio Dal Sasso, Gilberto Artioli, Sandro Salvatori, Tina Jakob, Tiziana Salviato

Affiliation Department of Geosciences, University of Padova, Padova, Italy

Gilberto Artioli

Contributed equally to this work with: Lara Maritan, Gregorio Dal Sasso, Gilberto Artioli, Sandro Salvatori, Tina Jakob, Tiziana Salviato

Affiliation Department of Geosciences, University of Padova, Padova, Italy

Sandro Salvatori

Contributed equally to this work with: Lara Maritan, Gregorio Dal Sasso, Gilberto Artioli, Sandro Salvatori, Tina Jakob, Tiziana Salviato

Affiliation Centro Studi Sudanesi e Sub-Sahariani (CSSeS), Treviso, Italy

Tina Jakob

Contributed equally to this work with: Lara Maritan, Gregorio Dal Sasso, Gilberto Artioli, Sandro Salvatori, Tina Jakob, Tiziana Salviato

Affiliation Department of Archaeology, Durham University, Durham, United Kingdom

Tiziana Salviato

Contributed equally to this work with: Lara Maritan, Gregorio Dal Sasso, Gilberto Artioli, Sandro Salvatori, Tina Jakob, Tiziana Salviato

Affiliation Department of Pathology, University of Trieste, Trieste, Italy

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exists.

Author Contributions

Conceptualization: DU SS LM GS GA. Data curation: LM GS GA. Formal analysis: LM GS GA. Funding acquisition: DU LM SS GA. Investigation: LM GS GA. Methodology: LM GS GA TJ. Project administration: DU SS. Resources: DU LM SS GA. Supervision: DU SS LM. Validation: DU LM GS GA SS TJ TS. Visualization: LM GS DU SS. Writing – original draft: DU LM GS GA SS TJ TS. Writing – review & editing: DU LM GS.