About the Authors

Hua Zhang

zhangh@sfu.ca (HZ); donyang@sfu.ca (DY); jingzh@interchange.ubc.ca (ZJ)

Affiliations Department of Archaeology, Simon Fraser University, Burnaby, British Columbia, Canada, SFU-JLU Joint Centre for Bioarchaeological Research, Department of Archaeology, Simon Fraser University, Burnaby, British Columbia, Canada

Deborah C. Merrett

Affiliations Department of Archaeology, Simon Fraser University, Burnaby, British Columbia, Canada, SFU-JLU Joint Centre for Bioarchaeological Research, Department of Archaeology, Simon Fraser University, Burnaby, British Columbia, Canada

Zhichun Jing

zhangh@sfu.ca (HZ); donyang@sfu.ca (DY); jingzh@interchange.ubc.ca (ZJ)

Affiliation Department of Anthropology, The University of British Columbia, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada

Jigen Tang

Affiliation Institute of Archaeology, Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, Beijing, China

Yuling He

Affiliation Institute of Archaeology, Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, Beijing, China

Hongbin Yue

Affiliation Institute of Archaeology, Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, Beijing, China

Zhanwei Yue

Affiliation Institute of Archaeology, Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, Beijing, China

Dongya Y. Yang

zhangh@sfu.ca (HZ); donyang@sfu.ca (DY); jingzh@interchange.ubc.ca (ZJ)

Affiliations Department of Archaeology, Simon Fraser University, Burnaby, British Columbia, Canada, SFU-JLU Joint Centre for Bioarchaeological Research, Department of Archaeology, Simon Fraser University, Burnaby, British Columbia, Canada

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceptualization: HZ DYY ZJ. Data curation: JT YH HY ZY. Formal analysis: HZ DM DYY. Funding acquisition: DYY ZJ HZ. Investigation: HZ. Methodology: HZ DM DYY. Project administration: DYY ZJ JT. Resources: JT YH HY ZY. Supervision: DYY ZJ. Writing – original draft: HZ. Writing – review & editing: HZ DM DYY ZJ JT YH HY ZY.