About the Authors

Robert N. Spengler

Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Writing – original draft

Spengler@shh.mpg.de

Affiliation Archaeology Department, Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History (Max-Planck-Institut für Menschheitsgeschichte), Jena, Germany

Farhod Maksudov

Contributed equally to this work with: Farhod Maksudov, Elissa Bullion, Ann Merkle, Taylor Hermes

Roles Investigation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Institute for Archaeological Research, Academy of Sciences, Tashkent, Uzbekistan

Elissa Bullion

Contributed equally to this work with: Farhod Maksudov, Elissa Bullion, Ann Merkle, Taylor Hermes

Roles Investigation, Writing – review & editing

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

Ann Merkle

Contributed equally to this work with: Farhod Maksudov, Elissa Bullion, Ann Merkle, Taylor Hermes

Roles Investigation, Writing – review & editing

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

Taylor Hermes

Contributed equally to this work with: Farhod Maksudov, Elissa Bullion, Ann Merkle, Taylor Hermes

Roles Investigation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Institute for Prehistoric and Protohistoric Archaeology, Christian-Albrechts-Universität zu Kiel, Kiel, Germany

Michael Frachetti

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

Affiliation Institute for Archaeological Research, Academy of Sciences, Tashkent, Uzbekistan

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.