Tufas indicate prolonged periods of water availability linked to human occupation in the southern Kalahari

• Jessica von der Meden ,

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

  * E-mail: vdrjes001@myuct.ac.za

  Affiliations Department of Geological Sciences, University of Cape Town, Rondebosch, South Africa, Human Evolution Research Institute, University of Cape Town, Rondebosch, South Africa

  https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3957-5824

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• Robyn Pickering,

  Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Project administration, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Department of Geological Sciences, University of Cape Town, Rondebosch, South Africa, Human Evolution Research Institute, University of Cape Town, Rondebosch, South Africa

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• Benjamin J. Schoville,

  Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Visualization, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Human Evolution Research Institute, University of Cape Town, Rondebosch, South Africa, School of Social Science, University of Queensland, St Lucia, Queensland, Australia

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0124-7959

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• Helen Green,

  Roles Formal analysis, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation School of Geography, Earth and Atmospheric Sciences, The University of Melbourne, Parkville, Victoria, Australia

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• Rieneke Weij,

  Roles Formal analysis, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Department of Geological Sciences, University of Cape Town, Rondebosch, South Africa, Human Evolution Research Institute, University of Cape Town, Rondebosch, South Africa, School of Geography, Earth and Atmospheric Sciences, The University of Melbourne, Parkville, Victoria, Australia

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• John Hellstrom,

  Roles Formal analysis, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation School of Geography, Earth and Atmospheric Sciences, The University of Melbourne, Parkville, Victoria, Australia

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• Alan Greig,

  Roles Formal analysis

  Affiliation School of Geography, Earth and Atmospheric Sciences, The University of Melbourne, Parkville, Victoria, Australia

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• Jon Woodhead,

  Roles Resources, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation School of Geography, Earth and Atmospheric Sciences, The University of Melbourne, Parkville, Victoria, Australia

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• Wendy Khumalo,

  Roles Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Department of Geological Sciences, University of Cape Town, Rondebosch, South Africa, Human Evolution Research Institute, University of Cape Town, Rondebosch, South Africa

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• Jayne Wilkins

  Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Project administration, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Human Evolution Research Institute, University of Cape Town, Rondebosch, South Africa, Australian Research Centre for Human Evolution, Environmental Futures Research Institute, Griffith University, Nathan, Australia

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