About the Authors

Yosef Garfinkel

drosenberg@research.haifa.ac.il

Affiliation Institute of Archaeology, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Mt. Scopus, Jerusalem, Israel

Florian Klimscha

Affiliation German Archaeological Institute, Eurasia Department, Berlin, Germany

Sariel Shalev

Affiliation Department of Archaeology, Department for Maritime Civilizations, University of Haifa, Haifa, Israel

Danny Rosenberg

Affiliation Laboratory for Groundstone Tools Research, Zinman Institute of Archaeology, University of Haifa, Haifa, Israel

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: YG SS. Performed the experiments: SS. Analyzed the data: SS FK YG DR. Wrote the paper: DR FK YG. Conducted fieldwork and recovered data: YG.