About the Authors
- Marcello A. Mannino
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* E-mail: marcello.mannino@eva.mpg.de
Affiliation Department of Human Evolution, Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Leipzig, Germany
- Giulio Catalano
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Affiliations Institute of Evolutionary Biology, Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas, Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona, Spain, Dipartimento di Biologia Evoluzionistica, Laboratori di Antropologia, Università degli Studi di Firenze, Florence, Italy
- Sahra Talamo
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Affiliation Department of Human Evolution, Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Leipzig, Germany
- Giovanni Mannino
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Affiliation Museo Archeologico Regionale “Antonino Salinas”, Palermo, Italy
- Rosaria Di Salvo
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Affiliation Museo Archeologico Regionale “Antonino Salinas”, Palermo, Italy
- Vittoria Schimmenti
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Affiliation Museo Archeologico Regionale “Antonino Salinas”, Palermo, Italy
- Carles Lalueza-Fox
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Affiliation Institute of Evolutionary Biology, Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas, Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona, Spain
- Andrea Messina
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Affiliation Dipartimento di Biologia Ambientale e Biodiversità, Università degli Studi di Palermo, Palermo, Italy
- Daria Petruso
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Affiliation Dipartimento di Scienze della Terra e del Mare, Università degli Studi di Palermo, Palermo, Italy
- David Caramelli
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Affiliation Dipartimento di Biologia Evoluzionistica, Laboratori di Antropologia, Università degli Studi di Firenze, Florence, Italy
- Michael P. Richards
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Affiliations Department of Human Evolution, Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Leipzig, Germany, Department of Anthropology, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada
- Luca Sineo
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Affiliation Dipartimento di Biologia Ambientale e Biodiversità, Università degli Studi di Palermo, Palermo, Italy
Competing Interests
Carles Lalueza-Fox and David Caramelli are PLOS ONE Editorial Board members. This does not alter the authors’ adherence to all the PLOS ONE policies on sharing data and materials.
Author Contributions
Conceived and designed the experiments: MAM RDS LS. Performed the experiments: MAM GC ST CLF DC MPR. Analyzed the data: MAM GC. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: MAM GM RDS VS AM MPR LS. Wrote the paper: MAM GC. Contributed to archaeological/environmental interpretation: GM DP.