About the Authors

Xinyi Liu

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

liuxinyi@wustl.edu

Affiliation Department of Anthropology, Washington University in St. Louis, St. Louis, MO, United States of America

Diane L. Lister

Roles Conceptualization, Investigation, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation McDonald Institute for Archaeological Research, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, United Kingdom

Zhijun Zhao

Roles Investigation, Resources, Writing – review & editing

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

Cameron A. Petrie

Roles Investigation, Resources, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation McDonald Institute for Archaeological Research, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, United Kingdom

Xiongsheng Zeng

Roles Conceptualization, Investigation, Resources

Affiliation Institute for the History of Natural Sciences, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China

Penelope J. Jones

Roles Formal analysis, Investigation, Resources, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation McDonald Institute for Archaeological Research, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, United Kingdom

Richard A. Staff

Roles Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Software, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Research Laboratory for Archaeology and the History of Art, University of Oxford, Oxford, United Kingdom, Scottish Universities Environmental Research Centre (SUERC), University of Glasgow, East Kibride, United Kingdom

Anil K. Pokharia

Roles Funding acquisition, Investigation, Resources, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Birbal Sahni Institute of Palaeobotany, Lucknow, India

Jennifer Bates

Roles Formal analysis, Investigation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation McDonald Institute for Archaeological Research, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, United Kingdom

Ravindra N. Singh

Roles Investigation, Resources

Affiliation Department of AIHC and Archaeology, Banaras Hindu University, Varnasi, India

Steven A. Weber

Roles Investigation, Resources

Affiliation Department of Anthropology, Washington State University, Vancouver, WA, United States of America

Giedre Motuzaite Matuzeviciute

Roles Formal analysis, Investigation, Resources, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Archaeology, Vilnius University, Vilnius, Lithuania

Guanghui Dong

Roles Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Resources, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Key Laboratory of Western China’s Environmental Systems, Lanzhou University, Lanzhou, China

Haiming Li

Roles Investigation, Resources, Visualization

Affiliation Key Laboratory of Western China’s Environmental Systems, Lanzhou University, Lanzhou, China

Hongliang Lü

Roles Investigation, Resources, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Archaeology, Sichuan University, Chengdu, China

Hongen Jiang

Roles Formal analysis, Investigation, Resources, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of History of Science and Archaeometry, University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China

Jianxin Wang

Roles Funding acquisition, Investigation, Resources

Affiliation School of Cultural Heritage, Northwest University, Xi’an, China

Jian Ma

Roles Investigation, Resources, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation School of Cultural Heritage, Northwest University, Xi’an, China

Duo Tian

Roles Formal analysis, Investigation, Resources, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation School of Cultural Heritage, Northwest University, Xi’an, China

Guiyun Jin

Roles Funding acquisition, Investigation, Resources, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation School of History and Culture, Shandong University, Jinan, China

Liping Zhou

Roles Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Laboratory for Earth Surface Processes, Peking University, Beijing, China

Xiaohong Wu

Roles Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation School of Archaeology and Museology, Peking University, Beijing, China

Martin K. Jones

Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Resources, Supervision, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation McDonald Institute for Archaeological Research, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, United Kingdom

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.