About the Authors

Quan Zhang

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

bailiaocao@163.com (QZ); houyanfeng@126.com (YH)

‡ These authors joint first authors on this work.

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

Yanfeng Hou

Roles Funding acquisition, Project administration, Resources, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

bailiaocao@163.com (QZ); houyanfeng@126.com (YH)

‡ These authors joint first authors on this work.

Affiliation Henan Provincial Institute of Cultural Heritage and Archaeology, Zhengzhou, China

Xinwei Li

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

Affiliation Institute of Archaeology, Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, Beijing, China

Amy Styring

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

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

Julia Lee-Thorp

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

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

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.