About the Authors

Sarah L. Fordyce

Contributed equally to this work with: Sarah L. Fordyce, Maria C. Ávila-Arcos

Affiliation Centre for GeoGenetics, Natural History Museum of Denmark, Copenhagen, Denmark

Maria C. Ávila-Arcos

Contributed equally to this work with: Sarah L. Fordyce, Maria C. Ávila-Arcos

Affiliation Centre for GeoGenetics, Natural History Museum of Denmark, Copenhagen, Denmark

Morten Rasmussen

Affiliation Centre for GeoGenetics, Natural History Museum of Denmark, Copenhagen, Denmark

Enrico Cappellini

Affiliation Centre for GeoGenetics, Natural History Museum of Denmark, Copenhagen, Denmark

J. Alberto Romero-Navarro

Affiliations Centre for GeoGenetics, Natural History Museum of Denmark, Copenhagen, Denmark, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, Cuernavaca, Morelos, Mexico

Nathan Wales

Affiliations Centre for GeoGenetics, Natural History Museum of Denmark, Copenhagen, Denmark, Department of Anthropology, University of Connecticut, Storrs, Connecticut, United States of America

David E. Alquezar-Planas

Affiliation Centre for GeoGenetics, Natural History Museum of Denmark, Copenhagen, Denmark

Steven Penfield

Affiliation Centre for Novel Agricultural Products, Department of Biology, University of York, York, United Kingdom

Terence A. Brown

Affiliation Manchester Interdisciplinary Biocentre, Faculty of Life Sciences, University of Manchester, Manchester, United Kingdom

Jean-Philippe Vielle-Calzada

Affiliation Laboratorio Nacional de Genómica para la Biodiversidad, CINVESTAV-IPN, Irapuato, Guanajuato, Mexico

Rafael Montiel

Affiliation Laboratorio Nacional de Genómica para la Biodiversidad, CINVESTAV-IPN, Irapuato, Guanajuato, Mexico

Tina Jørgensen

Affiliation Centre for GeoGenetics, Natural History Museum of Denmark, Copenhagen, Denmark

Nancy Odegaard

Affiliation Arizona State Museum, University of Arizona, Tucson, Arizona, United States of America

Michael Jacobs

Affiliation Arizona State Museum, University of Arizona, Tucson, Arizona, United States of America

Bernardo Arriaza

Affiliation Instituto de Alta Investigación, Departamento de Antropología, Centro de Investigaciones del Hombre en el Desierto, Universidad de Tarapacá, Arica, Chile

Thomas F. G. Higham

Affiliation Research Laboratory for Archaeology and the History of Art, Oxford, United Kingdom

Christopher Bronk Ramsey

Affiliation Research Laboratory for Archaeology and the History of Art, Oxford, United Kingdom

Eske Willerslev

Affiliation Centre for GeoGenetics, Natural History Museum of Denmark, Copenhagen, Denmark

M. Thomas P. Gilbert

mtpgilbert@gmail.com

Affiliation Centre for GeoGenetics, Natural History Museum of Denmark, Copenhagen, Denmark

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: MTPG. Performed the experiments: SLF CBR TFGH TJ MR EC JARN NW DEAP. Analyzed the data: MCAA MR. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: SP TAB JPVC RM NO MJ BA EW. Wrote the paper: SLF MCAA.