About the Authors

Manuel Domínguez-Rodrigo

m.dominguez.rodrigo@gmail.com

Affiliations IDEA (Instituto de Evolución en África), Museo de los Orígenes, Madrid, Spain, Department of Prehistory, Complutense University, Madrid, Spain

Travis Rayne Pickering

Affiliations Department of Anthropology, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, Wisconsin, United States of America, Institute for Human Evolution, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa, Plio-Pleistocene Palaeontology Section, Department of Vertebrates, Ditsong National Museum of Natural History (Transvaal Museum), Pretoria, South Africa

Fernando Diez-Martín

Affiliation Department of Prehistory and Archaeology, University of Valladolid, Valladolid, Spain

Audax Mabulla

Affiliation Archaeology Unit, University of Dar es Salaam, Dar es Salaam, Tanzania

Charles Musiba

Affiliation Department of Anthropology, University of Colorado Denver, Denver, Colorado, United States of America

Gonzalo Trancho

Affiliation Department of Anthropology, Complutense University, Madrid, Spain

Enrique Baquedano

Affiliations IDEA (Instituto de Evolución en África), Museo de los Orígenes, Madrid, Spain, Museo Arqueológico Regional, Alcalá de Henares, Madrid, Spain

Henry T. Bunn

Affiliation Department of Anthropology, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, Wisconsin, United States of America

Doris Barboni

Affiliation CEREGE (Centre Européen de Recherche et d'Enseignement des Géosciences de l'Environnement) Aix-Marseille Université (AMU/CNRS/IRD/Collège de France), BP80, Aix-en-Provence, France

Manuel Santonja

Affiliation CENIEH (Centro Nacional de Investigación sobre la Evolución Humana), Burgos, Spain

David Uribelarrea

Affiliation Department of Geodynamics, Complutense University, Madrid, Spain

Gail M. Ashley

Affiliation Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences, Rutgers University, Piscataway, New Jersey, United States of America

María del Sol Martínez-Ávila

Affiliation Department of Anthropology, Complutense University, Madrid, Spain

Rebeca Barba

Affiliation IDEA (Instituto de Evolución en África), Museo de los Orígenes, Madrid, Spain

Agness Gidna

Affiliation IDEA (Instituto de Evolución en África), Museo de los Orígenes, Madrid, Spain

José Yravedra

Affiliation Department of Prehistory, Complutense University, Madrid, Spain

Carmen Arriaza

Affiliations IDEA (Instituto de Evolución en África), Museo de los Orígenes, Madrid, Spain, Museo Arqueológico Regional, Alcalá de Henares, Madrid, Spain

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: MDR TRP CM GT MM-A. Performed the experiments: MDR TRP CM GT MM-A. Analyzed the data: MDR TRP CM GT MM-A. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: AM FDM EB HTB DB MS DU GMA RB AG JY CA. Wrote the paper: MDR TRP. Excavation: AM FDM EB DU GMA RB AG JY CA.