About the Authors

Veerle Linseele

Veerle.Linseele@arts.kuleuven.be

Affiliations Laboratory of Biodiversity and Evolutionary Genomics, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Leuven, Belgium, Royal Belgian Institute of Natural Sciences, Brussels, Belgium

Wim Van Neer

Affiliations Laboratory of Biodiversity and Evolutionary Genomics, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Leuven, Belgium, Royal Belgian Institute of Natural Sciences, Brussels, Belgium

Sofie Thys

Affiliation Royal Belgian Institute of Natural Sciences, Brussels, Belgium

Rebecca Phillipps

Affiliation Anthropology Department, The University of Auckland, Auckland, New Zealand

René Cappers

Affiliation Groningen Institute of Archaeology (GIA), Rijksuniversiteit Groningen, Groningen, The Netherlands

Willeke Wendrich

Affiliation Cotsen Institute of Archaeology, University of California Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California, United States of America

Simon Holdaway

Affiliation Anthropology Department, The University of Auckland, Auckland, New Zealand

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Analyzed the data: VL WVN ST. Wrote the paper: VL WVN RP RC WW SH. Planned, conducted and supervised archaeological excavations: RP WW SH.