About the Authors

William E. Banks

w.banks@ipgq.u-bordeaux1.fr

Affiliation Institut de Préhistoire et de Géologie du Quaternaire, UMR 5199-PACEA, Université Bordeaux 1, CNRS, Talence, France

Francesco d'Errico

Affiliations Institut de Préhistoire et de Géologie du Quaternaire, UMR 5199-PACEA, Université Bordeaux 1, CNRS, Talence, France, Institute for Human Evolution, University of Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa

A. Townsend Peterson

Affiliation Natural History Museum and Biodiversity Research Center, The University of Kansas, Lawrence, Kansas, United States of America

Masa Kageyama

Affiliation Laboratoire des Sciences du Climat et de l'Environnement/IPSL, UMR 1572, CEA/CNRS/UVSQ, CE Saclay, L'Orme des Merisiers, Gif-sur-Yvette, France

Adriana Sima

Affiliation Laboratoire des Sciences du Climat et de l'Environnement/IPSL, UMR 1572, CEA/CNRS/UVSQ, CE Saclay, L'Orme des Merisiers, Gif-sur-Yvette, France

Maria-Fernanda Sánchez-Goñi

Affiliation EPHE, UMR5805-EPOC, Université Bordeaux 1, CNRS, Talence, France

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: WEB. Performed the experiments: WEB. Analyzed the data: WEB Fd ATP. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: MK AS MFSG. Wrote the paper: WEB Fd ATP MK MFSG.