Between land and sea: A multidisciplinary approach to understand the Early Occupation of Sicily (EOS)

• Ilaria Patania ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Ilaria Patania, Isaac Ogloblin Ramirez, Peyton Carroll, Sara Zaia, Danielle Falci, Iris Querenet Onfroy de Breville, Christian Tryon

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

  * E-mail: ilaria.patania@rutgers.edu

  Affiliations Department of Anthropology, Washington University in St. Louis, MO, United States of America, Center for Human Evolutionary Studies, Rutgers University, NJ, United States of America

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• Isaac Ogloblin Ramirez ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Ilaria Patania, Isaac Ogloblin Ramirez, Peyton Carroll, Sara Zaia, Danielle Falci, Iris Querenet Onfroy de Breville, Christian Tryon

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

  Affiliations Department of Maritime Civilizations, University of Haifa, Haifa, Israel, The Leon Recanati Institute for Maritime Studies, Haifa, Israel, The Sonia and Marco Nadler Institute of Archeology, Tel Aviv University, Tel Aviv, Israel

  https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7793-6147

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• Peyton Carroll ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Ilaria Patania, Isaac Ogloblin Ramirez, Peyton Carroll, Sara Zaia, Danielle Falci, Iris Querenet Onfroy de Breville, Christian Tryon

  Roles Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Anthropology, University of Connecticut, Storrs, CT, United States of America

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8924-8277

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• Kristen Wroth ,

  Roles Investigation, Writing – review & editing

  ¶‡ KW, SDM, IAL, GM, AR, GI and TK also contributed equally to this work

  Affiliation Department of Chemistry, Earlham College, Richmond, IN, United States of America

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• Sara Zaia ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Ilaria Patania, Isaac Ogloblin Ramirez, Peyton Carroll, Sara Zaia, Danielle Falci, Iris Querenet Onfroy de Breville, Christian Tryon

  Roles Data curation, Investigation, Writing – review & editing

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

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• Sebastiano Di Mauro ,

  Roles Investigation

  ¶‡ KW, SDM, IAL, GM, AR, GI and TK also contributed equally to this work

  Affiliation Independent Scholar, Augusta, Italy

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• Danielle Falci ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Ilaria Patania, Isaac Ogloblin Ramirez, Peyton Carroll, Sara Zaia, Danielle Falci, Iris Querenet Onfroy de Breville, Christian Tryon

  Roles Formal analysis, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Anthropology, University of Connecticut, Storrs, CT, United States of America

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• Iris Querenet Onfroy de Breville ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Ilaria Patania, Isaac Ogloblin Ramirez, Peyton Carroll, Sara Zaia, Danielle Falci, Iris Querenet Onfroy de Breville, Christian Tryon

  Roles Formal analysis, Investigation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Anthropology, University of Connecticut, Storrs, CT, United States of America

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• Ignacio Aguilar Lazagabaster ,

  Roles Formal analysis, Writing – review & editing

  ¶‡ KW, SDM, IAL, GM, AR, GI and TK also contributed equally to this work

  Affiliations National Research Center on Human Evolution, Burgos, Spain, Department of Evolution, Ecology & Behaviour, University of Liverpool, Liverpool, United Kingdom

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• Gianmarco Minniti ,

  Roles Investigation, Writing – review & editing

  ¶‡ KW, SDM, IAL, GM, AR, GI and TK also contributed equally to this work

  Affiliation Dipatimento di Geologia, Università di Catania, Catania, Italy

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• Agatino Reitano ,

  Roles Investigation, Writing – review & editing

  ¶‡ KW, SDM, IAL, GM, AR, GI and TK also contributed equally to this work

  Affiliation Museo Civico di Storia Naturale di Comiso, Comiso, Italy

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• Gianni Insacco ,

  Roles Investigation, Writing – review & editing

  ¶‡ KW, SDM, IAL, GM, AR, GI and TK also contributed equally to this work

  Affiliation Museo Civico di Storia Naturale di Comiso, Comiso, Italy

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• Tristram Kidder ,

  Roles Writing – review & editing

  ¶‡ KW, SDM, IAL, GM, AR, GI and TK also contributed equally to this work

  Affiliation Department of Anthropology, Washington University in St. Louis, MO, United States of America

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• Christian Tryon

  Contributed equally to this work with: Ilaria Patania, Isaac Ogloblin Ramirez, Peyton Carroll, Sara Zaia, Danielle Falci, Iris Querenet Onfroy de Breville, Christian Tryon

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

  Affiliations Department of Anthropology, University of Connecticut, Storrs, CT, United States of America, Human Origins Program, National Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian Institution, Washington DC, United States of America

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