About the Authors

Maria Antonietta Costa

Affiliation Instituto Investigaciones Arqueológicas y Museo, Universidad Católica del Norte, San Pedro de Atacama, Chile

Carney Matheson

Affiliation Paleo-DNA Research, Lakehead University, Thunder Bay, Ontario, Canada

Lucia Iachetta

Affiliation Department of Anthropology, The University of Western Ontario, London, Ontario, Canada

Agustín Llagostera

Affiliation Instituto Investigaciones Arqueológicas y Museo, Universidad Católica del Norte, San Pedro de Atacama, Chile

Otto Appenzeller

oarun@unm.edu

Affiliation New Mexico Health Enhancement and Marathon Clinics Research Foundation, Albuquerque, New Mexico, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: MAC CDM LI OA. Performed the experiments: CDM LI OA. Analyzed the data: CDM LI OA. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: MAC CDM LI AL. Wrote the paper: OA. Wrote Spanish version of part of the paper: MAC. Reviewed the manuscript: CDM LI AL. Wrote technical part of manuscript: CDM. Contributed to Spanish version of the manuscript: AL.