Expansion of forest cover and coeval shifts in Later Stone Age land-use at Taforalt and Rhafas Caves, Morocco, as inferred from carbon isotopes in ungulate tooth enamel

• Kayla B. Worthey ,

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Visualization, Writing – original draft

  * E-mail: kbworthey@fas.harvard.edu

  Affiliations American School of Prehistoric Research, Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States of America, School of Anthropology, University of Arizona, Tucson, Arizona, United States of America

  https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5337-5592

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• Philippe Fernandez ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Philippe Fernandez, Elaine Turner, Teresa E. Steele

  Roles Formal analysis, Resources, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation CNRS, UMR 7269 LAMPEA, Aix Marseille Université, Ministry Culture, Aix-en-Provence, France

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• Elaine Turner ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Philippe Fernandez, Elaine Turner, Teresa E. Steele

  Roles Formal analysis, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Monrepos Archaeological Research Centre and Museum for Human Behavioural Evolution, LEIZA, Neuwied, Germany

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• Teresa E. Steele ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Philippe Fernandez, Elaine Turner, Teresa E. Steele

  Roles Formal analysis, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Anthropology, University of California, Davis, California, United States of America

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3091-6488

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• Louise Humphrey,

  Roles Project administration, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Centre for Human Evolution Research, Natural History Museum, London, United Kingdom

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• R. Nick E. Barton,

  Roles Project administration, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Institute of Archaeology, University of Oxford, Oxford, United Kingdom

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• Jean-Jacques Hublin,

  Roles Project administration, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Paléoanthropologie, CIRB, Collège de France, Université PSL, CNRS, Paris, France, Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Leipzig, Germany

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• Abdeljalil Bouzouggar

  Roles Project administration, Resources, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Leipzig, Germany, Institut National des Sciences de l’Archéologie et du Patrimoine, Rabat, Morocco

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