About the Authors

José-Miguel Tejero

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

jose.miguel.tejero@univie.ac.at (JMT); anna.belfer-cohen@mail.huji.ac.il (ABC)

Affiliations Department of Evolutionary Anthropology, University of Vienna, Vienna, Austria, Seminari d’Estudis I Recerques Prehistòriques, Universitat de Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain

Guy Bar-Oz

Roles Investigation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Zinman Institute of Archaeology, University of Haifa, Haifa, Israel

Ofer Bar-Yosef

† Deceased.

Roles Funding acquisition, Investigation

Affiliation Department of Anthropology, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, United States of America

Tengiz Meshveliani

Roles Funding acquisition, Investigation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Georgian National Museum, Tbilisi, Georgia

Nino Jakeli

Roles Funding acquisition, Investigation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Georgian National Museum, Tbilisi, Georgia

Zinovi Matskevich

Roles Investigation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Israel Antiquities Authority, Jerusalem, Israel

Ron Pinhasi

Roles Funding acquisition, Investigation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Evolutionary Anthropology, University of Vienna, Vienna, Austria

Anna Belfer-Cohen

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

jose.miguel.tejero@univie.ac.at (JMT); anna.belfer-cohen@mail.huji.ac.il (ABC)

Affiliation Institute of Archaeology, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Jerusalem, Israel

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.