Homo sapiens lithic technology and microlithization in the South Asian rainforest at Kitulgala Beli-lena (c. 45 – 8,000 years ago)

• Andrea Picin ,

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

  * E-mail: picin@shh.mpg.de (AP); wedage@shh.mpg.de (OW); roberts@shh.mpg.de (PR); m.petraglia@griffith.edu.au (MP)

  Affiliations Department of Archaeology, Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History, Jena, Germany, Bereich für Ur- und Frühgeschichtliche Archäologie, Friedrich Schiller Universität Jena, Jena, Germany

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8831-8325

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• Oshan Wedage ,

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Writing – original draft

  * E-mail: picin@shh.mpg.de (AP); wedage@shh.mpg.de (OW); roberts@shh.mpg.de (PR); m.petraglia@griffith.edu.au (MP)

  Affiliations Department of Archaeology, Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History, Jena, Germany, Department of History and Archaeology, University of Sri Jayewardenepura, Gangodawila, Nugegoda, Sri Lanka

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• James Blinkhorn,

  Roles Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Pan-African Evolution Research Group, Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History, Jena, Germany, Department of Geography, Royal Holloway, University of London, London, United Kingdom

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• Noel Amano,

  Roles Formal analysis, Investigation, Visualization, Writing – review & editing

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

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• Siran Deraniyagala †,

  † Deceased.

  Roles Investigation, Supervision

  Affiliation Department of Archaeology, Government of Sri Lanka, Colombo, Sri Lanka

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• Nicole Boivin,

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

  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, National Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C., United States of America, Department of Anthropology and Archaeology, University of Calgary, Calgary, Canada

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• Patrick Roberts ,

  Roles Conceptualization, Investigation, Methodology, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: picin@shh.mpg.de (AP); wedage@shh.mpg.de (OW); roberts@shh.mpg.de (PR); m.petraglia@griffith.edu.au (MP)

  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

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• Michael Petraglia

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

  * E-mail: picin@shh.mpg.de (AP); wedage@shh.mpg.de (OW); roberts@shh.mpg.de (PR); m.petraglia@griffith.edu.au (MP)

  Affiliations School of Social Science, The University of Queensland, Brisbane, Australia, Department of Anthropology, National Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C., United States of America, Australian Research Centre for Human Evolution, Griffith University, Brisbane, Australia

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