About the Authors

Maria Giovanna Belcastro

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Software, Supervision, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

mariagiovanna.belcastro@unibo.it

Affiliation Department of Biological, Geological and Environmental Sciences, Alma Mater Studiorum-University of Bologna, Bologna, Italy

Teresa Nicolosi

Roles Data curation, Methodology, Writing – original draft

Affiliation Department of Biological, Geological and Environmental Sciences, Alma Mater Studiorum-University of Bologna, Bologna, Italy

Rita Sorrentino

Roles Data curation, Methodology, Writing – original draft

Affiliations Department of Biological, Geological and Environmental Sciences, Alma Mater Studiorum-University of Bologna, Bologna, Italy, Department for the Cultural Heritage, Alma Mater Studiorum-University of Bologna, Ravenna, Italy

Valentina Mariotti

Roles Data curation, Methodology

Affiliation Department of Biological, Geological and Environmental Sciences, Alma Mater Studiorum-University of Bologna, Bologna, Italy

Annalisa Pietrobelli

Roles Data curation, Methodology, Writing – original draft

Affiliation Department of Biological, Geological and Environmental Sciences, Alma Mater Studiorum-University of Bologna, Bologna, Italy

Matteo Bettuzzi

Roles Methodology

Affiliation Department of Physics and Astronomy, Alma Mater Studiorum-University of Bologna, Bologna, Italy

Maria Pia Morigi

Roles Funding acquisition, Methodology, Writing – original draft

Affiliation Department of Physics and Astronomy, Alma Mater Studiorum-University of Bologna, Bologna, Italy

Stefano Benazzi

Roles Visualization

Affiliation Department for the Cultural Heritage, Alma Mater Studiorum-University of Bologna, Ravenna, Italy

Sahra Talamo

Roles Methodology

Affiliation Department of Chemistry “Giacomo Ciamician”, Alma Mater Studiorum-University of Bologna, Bologna, Italy

Monica Miari

Roles Methodology, Writing – original draft

Affiliation Superintendency of Archaeology, Fine Arts and Landscape of the provinces of Bologna, Modena, Reggio Emilia and Ferrara, Bologna, Italy

Nevio Preti

Roles Methodology, Resources

Affiliation Gruppo Speleologico Bolognese (GBS)—Unione Speleologica Bolognese (USB), Bologna, Italy

Lucia Castagna

Roles Methodology, Resources

Affiliation Gruppo Speleologico Bolognese (GBS)—Unione Speleologica Bolognese (USB), Bologna, Italy

Luca Pisani

Roles Resources

Affiliations Department of Biological, Geological and Environmental Sciences, Alma Mater Studiorum-University of Bologna, Bologna, Italy, Gruppo Speleologico Bolognese (GBS)—Unione Speleologica Bolognese (USB), Bologna, Italy

Luca Grandi

Roles Resources

Affiliation Gruppo Speleologico Bolognese (GBS)—Unione Speleologica Bolognese (USB), Bologna, Italy

Pietro Baraldi

Roles Methodology, Validation

Affiliation Department of Chemical and Geological Sciences, University of the Studies of Modena and Reggio Emilia, Modena, Italy

Paolo Zannini

Roles Methodology, Validation

Affiliation Department of Chemical and Geological Sciences, University of the Studies of Modena and Reggio Emilia, Modena, Italy

Daniele Scarponi

Roles Methodology, Writing – original draft

Affiliation Department of Biological, Geological and Environmental Sciences, Alma Mater Studiorum-University of Bologna, Bologna, Italy

Jo De Waele

Roles Methodology, Supervision, Validation, Writing – original draft

Affiliation Department of Biological, Geological and Environmental Sciences, Alma Mater Studiorum-University of Bologna, Bologna, Italy

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.