About the Authors

Xiyan Wu

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

Affiliations School of Life Sciences, Jilin University, Changchun, China, School of History and Culture, Henan University, Kaifeng, China

Chao Ning

Roles Writing – review & editing

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

Felix M. Key

Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Methodology, Visualization, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History, Jena, Germany, Max Planck Institute for Infection Biology, Berlin, Germany

Aida Andrades Valtueña

Roles Formal analysis, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History, Jena, Germany, Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Leipzig, Germany

Aditya Kumar Lankapalli

Roles Formal analysis

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

Shizhu Gao

Roles Investigation

Affiliation College of Pharmacia Sciences, Jilin University, Changchun, China

Xuan Yang

Roles Investigation

Affiliation School of Life Sciences, Jilin University, Changchun, China

Fan Zhang

Roles Investigation

Affiliation School of Life Sciences, Jilin University, Changchun, China

Linlin Liu

Roles Investigation

Affiliation Department of Radiation Oncology, The Second Hospital of Jilin University, Changchun, China

Zhongzhi Nie

Roles Investigation, Resources

Affiliation Research Center for Chinese Frontier Archaeology, Jilin University, Changchun, China

Jian Ma

Roles Investigation, Resources

Affiliation School of Cultural Heritage, Northwest University, Xi’an, China

Johannes Krause

Roles Conceptualization, Writing – review & editing

krause@shh.mpg.de (JK); herbig@shh.mpg.de (AH); cuiyq@jlu.edu.cn (YCQ)

Affiliations Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History, Jena, Germany, Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Leipzig, Germany

Alexander Herbig

Roles Conceptualization, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

krause@shh.mpg.de (JK); herbig@shh.mpg.de (AH); cuiyq@jlu.edu.cn (YCQ)

Affiliations Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History, Jena, Germany, Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Leipzig, Germany

Yinqiu Cui

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

krause@shh.mpg.de (JK); herbig@shh.mpg.de (AH); cuiyq@jlu.edu.cn (YCQ)

Affiliations School of Life Sciences, Jilin University, Changchun, China, Research Center for Chinese Frontier Archaeology, Jilin University, Changchun, China, Key Laboratory for Evolution of Past Life and Environment in Northeast Asia (Jilin University), Ministry of Education, Changchun, China

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.