About the Authors

Miki Ben-Dor

Affiliation Institute of Archaeology, Tel Aviv University, Tel Aviv, Israel

Avi Gopher

Affiliation Institute of Archaeology, Tel Aviv University, Tel Aviv, Israel

Israel Hershkovitz

Affiliation Department of Anatomy and Anthropology, Sackler Faculty of Medicine, Dan David Laboratory for the Search and Study of Modern Humans, Tel Aviv University, Tel Aviv, Israel

Ran Barkai

barkaran@post.tau.ac.il

Affiliation Institute of Archaeology, Tel Aviv University, Tel Aviv, Israel

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: MB-D AG IH RB. Performed the experiments: MB-D AG IH RB. Analyzed the data: MB-D AG IH RB. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: MB-D AG IH RB. Wrote the paper: MB-D AG IH RB.