About the Authors

David Burley

burley@sfu.ca

Affiliation Department of Archaeology, Simon Fraser University, Burnaby, British Columbia, Canada

Marshall I. Weisler

Affiliation School of Social Science, University of Queensland, St Lucia, Queensland, Australia

Jian-xin Zhao

Affiliation Centre for Microscopy and Microanalysis, University of Queensland, St Lucia, Queensland, Australia

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: DB MIW JxZ. Performed the experiments: JxZ. Analyzed the data: DB MIW JxZ. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: DB JxZ. Wrote the paper: DB MIW JxZ.