About the Authors

Savino di Lernia

savino.dilernia@uniroma1.it

Affiliations Dipartimento di Scienze dell'Antichità, Sapienza Università di Roma, Rome, Italy, School of Geography, Archaeology and Environmental Studies, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa

Mary Anne Tafuri

Affiliations McDonald Institute for Archaeological Research, University of Cambridge, Downing Street, Cambridge, United Kingdom, Dipartimento di Biologia Ambientale, Sapienza Università di Roma, Rome, Italy

Marina Gallinaro

Affiliation Dipartimento di Scienze dell'Antichità, Sapienza Università di Roma, Rome, Italy

Francesca Alhaique

Affiliations Dipartimento di Biologia Ambientale, Sapienza Università di Roma, Rome, Italy, Department of Anthropology, Washington University in St. Louis, St. Louis, Missouri, United States of America

Marie Balasse

Affiliation UMR 7209 “Archéozoologie, archéobotanique: sociétés, pratiques et environnements”, CNRS/MNHN, Paris, France

Lucia Cavorsi

Affiliation Dipartimento di Scienze dell'Antichità, Sapienza Università di Roma, Rome, Italy

Paul D. Fullagar

Affiliation Department of Geological Sciences, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, North Carolina, United States of America

Anna Maria Mercuri

Affiliation Laboratorio di Palinologia e Paleobotanica, Dipartimento di Scienze della Vita, Università di Modena e Reggio Emilia, Modena, Italy

Andrea Monaco

Affiliation Dipartimento di Scienze dell'Antichità, Sapienza Università di Roma, Rome, Italy

Alessandro Perego

Affiliation Dipartimento di Scienze della Terra “A. Desio”, Università degli Studi di Milano, Milan, Italy

Andrea Zerboni

Affiliation Dipartimento di Scienze della Terra “A. Desio”, Università degli Studi di Milano, Milan, Italy

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Directed the fieldwork: SDL. Coordinated and performed isotopic studies: MAT. Implemented GIS information and analysed rock art: MG. Studied the faunal remains and wrote the relevant parts of the paper: FA. Performed and interpreted Carbon and Oxygen analyses and wrote the relevant parts of the paper: MB. Performed pollen and botanical studies and wrote the relevant parts of the paper: AMM. Performed strontium analysis: PF. Provided geomorphological data: AP AZ. Excavated and studied archaeological materials: LC MG AM. Conceived and designed the experiments: SDL MAT. Performed the experiments: SDL MAT MG FA MB PF AMM AM. Analyzed the data: SDL MAT MG FA MB AMM. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: SDL MAT MG FA MB LC PF AMM AM AP AZ. Wrote the paper: SDL MAT MG.