About the Authors

André Strauss

andre_strauss@eva.mpg.de

Affiliation Department of Human Evolution, Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Leipzig, Germany

Rodrigo Elias Oliveira

Affiliation Laboratório de Estudos Evolutivos Humanos, Departamento de Genética e Biologia Evolutiva, Instituto de Biociências, Universidade de São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil

Danilo V. Bernardo

Affiliations Laboratório de Estudos Evolutivos Humanos, Departamento de Genética e Biologia Evolutiva, Instituto de Biociências, Universidade de São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil, Instituto de Ciências Humanas e da Informação, Universidade Federal do Rio Grande, Rio Grande, Brazil

Domingo C. Salazar-García

Affiliations Department of Human Evolution, Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Leipzig, Germany, Department of Archaeology, University of Cape Town, Rondebosch, South Africa, Departament de Prehistòria i Arqueologia, Universitat de València, València, Spain

Sahra Talamo

Affiliation Department of Human Evolution, Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Leipzig, Germany

Klervia Jaouen

Affiliation Department of Human Evolution, Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Leipzig, Germany

Mark Hubbe

Affiliations The Ohio State University, Department of Anthropology, Columbus, Ohio, United States of America, Instituto de Investigaciones Arqueológicas y Museo, Universidad Católica der Norte, San Pedro de Atacama, Chile

Sue Black

Affiliation University of Dundee, Centre for Anatomy & Human Identification, Dundee, United Kingdom

Caroline Wilkinson

Affiliation University of Dundee, Centre for Anatomy & Human Identification, Dundee, United Kingdom

Michael Phillip Richards

Affiliations Department of Human Evolution, Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Leipzig, Germany, Department of Anthropology, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada

Astolfo G. M. Araujo

Affiliations Laboratório de Estudos Evolutivos Humanos, Departamento de Genética e Biologia Evolutiva, Instituto de Biociências, Universidade de São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil, Laboratório Interdisciplinar de Pesquisas em Evolução, Cultura e Meio Ambiente, Museu de Arqueologia e Etnologia, Universidade de São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil

Renato Kipnis

Affiliations Laboratório de Estudos Evolutivos Humanos, Departamento de Genética e Biologia Evolutiva, Instituto de Biociências, Universidade de São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil, Scientia Consultoria Científica Ltda., São Paulo, Brazil

Walter Alves Neves

Affiliation Laboratório de Estudos Evolutivos Humanos, Departamento de Genética e Biologia Evolutiva, Instituto de Biociências, Universidade de São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil

Competing Interests

The authors of this manuscript have the following competing interests: Author Renato Kipnis is employed by Scientia Consultoria Científica Ltda. There are no patents, products in development or marketed products to declare. This does not alter their adherence to all the PLOS ONE policies on sharing data and materials.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: AS RO DB DS ST KJ MH SB CW MR AA RK WN. Performed the experiments: AS RO DB DS ST KJ MH SB CW MR AA RK WN. Analyzed the data: AS RO DB DS ST KJ MH SB CW MR AA RK WN. Wrote the paper: AS RO DB DS ST KJ MH SB CW MR AA RK WN.