The Acknowledgements section is incomplete. The full section is as follows: "We wish to thank Omry Barzilai and Nimrod Getzov for their kind permission to use data from Mishmar Ha’Emeq, and Ezra Marcus and two anonymous reviewers for their comments on earlier version of the manuscript. Finally, we are also indebted to Prof. Yosef Garfinkel for inviting us to work on the faunal material from Sha`ar Hagolan and for his constant help and advice."