About the Authors

William Taylor

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

william.taylor@colorado.edu

Affiliations Department of Archaeology, Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History, Jena, Germany, Museum of Natural History, University of Colorado-Boulder, Boulder, Colorado, United States of America

Julia K. Clark

Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Department of Archaeology, Flinders University, Adelaide, Australia, NOMAD Science, Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia

Björn Reichhardt

Roles Investigation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Central Asian Seminar, Institute for Asian and African Studies, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Berlin, Germany, Department of Archaeogenetics, Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History, Jena, Germany

Gregory W. L. Hodgins

Roles Visualization, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Accelerator Mass Spectrometry Laboratory, University of Arizona, Tucson, Arizona, United States of America

Jamsranjav Bayarsaikhan

Roles Investigation, Project administration

Affiliation National Museum of Mongolia, Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia

Oyundelger Batchuluun

Roles Investigation

Affiliation National Museum of Mongolia, Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia

Jocelyn Whitworth

Roles Conceptualization, Investigation, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Clearview Animal Hospital, Colorado Springs, Colorado, United States of America

Myagmar Nansalmaa

Roles Conceptualization, Investigation, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Unit of Diagnosis and Surveillance for Infectious and Parasitic Disease, State Central Veterinary Laboratory, Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia

Craig M. Lee

Roles Conceptualization, Investigation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Institute for Arctic and Alpine Research, University of Colorado-Boulder, Boulder, Colorado, United States of America

E. James Dixon

Roles Conceptualization, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Anthropology, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, New Mexico, United States of America

Competing Interests

JW is a paid employee of Clearview Animal Hospital and JC is a paid employee of NOMAD Science, Mongolia. This does not alter our adherence to PLOS ONE policies on sharing data and materials. There are no other relevant declarations relating to employment, consultancy, patents, products in development, or marketed products.