About the Authors

Darren Curnoe

d.curnoe@unsw.edu.au (DC); jxping@public.km.yn.cn (JX)

Affiliation School of Biological, Earth and Environmental Sciences, University of New South Wales, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia

Ji Xueping

d.curnoe@unsw.edu.au (DC); jxping@public.km.yn.cn (JX)

Affiliations Yunnan Institute of Cultural Relics and Archeology, Kunming, Yunnan, China, Archeology Research Center, Yunnan University, Kunming, Yunnan, China

Andy I. R. Herries

Affiliation Archaeomagnetism Laboratory, Archaeology Program, School of Historical and European Studies, La Trobe University, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia

Bai Kanning

Affiliation Honghe Prefectural Institute of Cultural Relics, Mengzi, Yunnan, China

Paul S. C. Taçon

Affiliation Place, Evolution and Rock Art Heritage Unit, School of Humanities, Gold Coast Campus, Griffith University, Southport, Queensland, Australia

Bao Zhende

Affiliation Mengzi Institute of Cultural Relics, Mengzi, Yunnan, China

David Fink

Affiliation Institute for Environmental Research, Australian Nuclear Science and Technology Organisation, Sydney, Australia

Zhu Yunsheng

Affiliation Honghe Prefectural Institute of Cultural Relics, Mengzi, Yunnan, China

John Hellstrom

Affiliation School of Earth Sciences, University of Melbourne, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia

Luo Yun

Affiliation Mengzi Institute of Cultural Relics, Mengzi, Yunnan, China

Gerasimos Cassis

Affiliation School of Biological, Earth and Environmental Sciences, University of New South Wales, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia

Su Bing

Affiliation State Key Laboratory of Genetic Resources and Evolution, Kunming Institute of Zoology and Kunming Primate Research Centre, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Kunming, China

Stephen Wroe

Affiliation School of Biological, Earth and Environmental Sciences, University of New South Wales, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia

Hong Shi

Affiliation State Key Laboratory of Genetic Resources and Evolution, Kunming Institute of Zoology and Kunming Primate Research Centre, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Kunming, China

William C. H. Parr

Affiliation School of Biological, Earth and Environmental Sciences, University of New South Wales, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia

Huang Shengmin

Affiliation Youjiang Nationalities Museum, Baise, Guangxi, China

Natalie Rogers

Affiliation School of Biological, Earth and Environmental Sciences, University of New South Wales, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: DC JX AH BK PT BZ DF ZY JH LY GC SB SW HS WP HS NR. Performed the experiments: DC JX AH BK PT BZ DF ZY JH LY GC SB SW HS WP HS NR. Analyzed the data: DC JX AH BK PT BZ DF ZY JH LY GC SB SW HS WP HS NR. Wrote the paper: DC JX AH BK PT BZ DF ZY JH LY GC SB SW HS WP HS NR.