About the Authors

Alicia R. Ventresca Miller

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

ventrescamiller@shh.mpg.de, avenmil@umich.edu (ARVM); turbat.tsagaan@gmail.com (TT)

Affiliations Department of Anthropology, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan, United States of America, Museum of Anthropological Archaeology, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan, United States of America, Department of Archaeology, Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History, Jena, Germany

Shevan Wilkin

Roles Formal analysis, Investigation, Validation, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Department of Archaeology, Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History, Jena, Germany, Institute of Evolutionary Medicine, Faculty of Medicine, University of Zürich, Zürich, Switzerland

Jessica Hendy

Roles Investigation, Validation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations BioArCh, Department of Archaeology, University of York, York, United Kingdom, Department of Archaeogenetics, Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History, Jena, Germany

Tsagaan Turbat

Roles Funding acquisition, Investigation, Writing – review & editing

ventrescamiller@shh.mpg.de, avenmil@umich.edu (ARVM); turbat.tsagaan@gmail.com (TT)

Affiliations Department of Anthropology and Archaeology, National University of Mongolia, Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia, Archaeological Research Center of the National University of Mongolia, Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia

Dunburee Batsukh

Roles Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Institute of Archaeology, Mongolian Academy of Sciences, Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia

Noost Bayarkhuu

Roles Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Archaeometry Laboratory, University of Science and Technology of China, Hefei, Anhui, China

Pierre-Henri Giscard

Roles Funding acquisition, Investigation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Institute of Deserts and Steppes, Paris, France

Jan Bemmann

Roles Funding acquisition, Investigation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Prehistoric and Early Historic Archaeology, Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-University of Bonn, Bonn, Germany

Jamsranjav Bayarsaikhan

Roles Investigation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Department of Archaeology, Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History, Jena, Germany, National Museum of Mongolia, Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia

Bryan K. Miller

Roles Investigation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Museum of Anthropological Archaeology, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan, United States of America, Department of Archaeology, Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History, Jena, Germany, History of Art Department, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan, United States of America

Julia Clark

Roles Writing – review & editing

Affiliations NOMAD Science, Glen, Montana, United States of America, Department of Archaeology, Flinders University, Adelaide, South Australia, Australia, Department of Sociology, Social Work and Anthropology, Utah State University, Logan, Utah, United States of America

Patrick Roberts

Roles Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Department of Archaeology, Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History, Jena, Germany, School of Social Science, University of Queensland, Brisbane, Australia

Nicole Boivin

Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Methodology, Supervision, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Department of Archaeology, Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History, Jena, Germany, School of Social Science, University of Queensland, Brisbane, Australia, Department of Archaeology, University of Calgary, Calgary, Canada, Smithsonian Institution, New York, New York, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.