About the Authors

Anneke Janzen

Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Visualization, Writing – original draft

ajanzen@utk.edu

Affiliations Department of Archaeology, Max-Planck Institute for the Science of Human History, Jena, Germany, Department of Anthropology, University of Tennessee, Knoxville, Tennessee, United States of America

Kristine Korzow Richter

Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Methodology, Visualization, Writing – original draft

Affiliations Department of Archaeology, Max-Planck Institute for the Science of Human History, Jena, Germany, Department of Anthropology, Harvard University, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

Ogeto Mwebi

Roles Conceptualization, Resources, Supervision, Writing – original draft

Affiliation Department of Zoology, Osteology Section, National Museums of Kenya, Nairobi, Kenya

Samantha Brown

Roles Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Writing – original draft

Affiliation Department of Archaeology, Max-Planck Institute for the Science of Human History, Jena, Germany

Veronicah Onduso

Roles Formal analysis

Affiliation Department of Zoology, Osteology Section, National Museums of Kenya, Nairobi, Kenya

Filia Gatwiri

Roles Formal analysis

Affiliation Department of Earth Sciences, Archaeology Section, National Museums of Kenya, Nairobi, Kenya

Emmanuel Ndiema

Roles Conceptualization, Resources

Affiliation Department of Earth Sciences, Archaeology Section, National Museums of Kenya, Nairobi, Kenya

Maggie Katongo

Roles Resources

Affiliation Department of Archaeology, Livingstone Museum, Livingstone, Zambia

Steven T. Goldstein

Roles Resources, Writing – original draft

Affiliation Department of Archaeology, Max-Planck Institute for the Science of Human History, Jena, Germany

Katerina Douka

Roles Funding acquisition, Project administration, Supervision

Affiliation Department of Archaeology, Max-Planck Institute for the Science of Human History, Jena, Germany

Nicole Boivin

Roles Conceptualization, Project administration, Supervision, Writing – original draft

Affiliations Department of Archaeology, Max-Planck Institute for the Science of Human History, Jena, Germany, School of Social Science, The University of Queensland, Brisbane, Australia, Department of Anthropology and Archaeology, University of Calgary, Calgary, Canada, Department of Anthropology, National Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C., United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist. The funder had no role in study design, data collection and analysis, decision to publish, or preparation of the manuscript.