About the Authors

Robert J. Losey

robert.losey@ualberta.ca

Affiliation Department of Anthropology, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada

Sandra Garvie-Lok

Affiliation Department of Anthropology, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada

Jennifer A. Leonard

Affiliation Conservation and Evolutionary Genetics Group, Estación Biológica de Doñana (Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Cientificas), Seville, Spain

M. Anne Katzenberg

Affiliation Department of Archaeology, University of Calgary, Calgary, Alberta, Canada

Mietje Germonpré

Affiliation Department of Palaeontology, Royal Belgian Institute of Natural Sciences, Brussels, Belgium

Tatiana Nomokonova

Affiliation Department of Anthropology, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC, Canada

Mikhail V. Sablin

Affiliation Zoological Institute, Russian Academy of Science, Saint-Petersburg, Russia

Olga I. Goriunova

Affiliation Department of Archaeology and Ethnography, Irkutsk State University, Irkutsk, Russia

Natalia E. Berdnikova

Affiliation Department of Archaeology and Ethnography, Irkutsk State University, Irkutsk, Russia

Nikolai A. Savel’ev

Affiliation Department of Archaeology and Ethnography, Irkutsk State University, Irkutsk, Russia

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: RJL SGL JAL TN. Performed the experiments: RJL JAL MAK MG. Analyzed the data: RJL SGL JAL MAK MG TN. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: MVS OIG NEB NAS. Wrote the paper: RJL SGL JAL MAK MG TN.