Phytoliths as an indicator of early modern humans plant gathering strategies, fire fuel and site occupation intensity during the Middle Stone Age at Pinnacle Point 5-6 (south coast, South Africa)

• Irene Esteban ,

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

  * E-mail: irene.estebanalama@wits.ac.za

  Affiliations Evolutionary Studies Institute, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa, School of Geosciences, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa, African Centre for Coastal Palaeoscience, Nelson Mandela University, Port Elizabeth, South Africa, ERAAUB. Dept. Història i Arqueologia, Universitat de Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain

  http://orcid.org/0000-0002-4850-1715

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• Curtis W. Marean,

  Roles Investigation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations African Centre for Coastal Palaeoscience, Nelson Mandela University, Port Elizabeth, South Africa, Institute of Human Origins, School of Human Evolution and Social Change, Arizona State University, Tempe, United States of America

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• Erich C. Fisher,

  Roles Investigation, Visualization, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Evolutionary Studies Institute, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa, African Centre for Coastal Palaeoscience, Nelson Mandela University, Port Elizabeth, South Africa, Institute of Human Origins, School of Human Evolution and Social Change, Arizona State University, Tempe, United States of America

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• Panagiotis Karkanas,

  Roles Investigation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation The Malcolm H. Wiener Laboratory for Archaeological Science, American School of Classical Studies, Athens, Greece

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• Dan Cabanes,

  Roles Investigation, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Department of Anthropology, Rutgers, the State University of New Jersey, Biological Sciences Building, New Brunswick, New Jersey, United States of America, Center for Human Evolutionary Studies. Rutgers, the State University of New Jersey, Biological Sciences Building, New Brunswick, New Jersey, United States of America

  http://orcid.org/0000-0001-6347-2513

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• Rosa M. Albert

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

  Affiliations Evolutionary Studies Institute, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa, African Centre for Coastal Palaeoscience, Nelson Mandela University, Port Elizabeth, South Africa, ERAAUB. Dept. Història i Arqueologia, Universitat de Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain, ICREA, Barcelona, Spain

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