About the Authors

David C. Orton

dco21@cam.sc.uk

Affiliation McDonald Institute for Archaeological Research, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, United Kingdom

Daniel Makowiecki

Affiliation Institute of Archaeology, Nicolaus Copernicus University, Toruń, Poland

Tessa de Roo

Affiliation Department of Archaeology and Anthropology, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, United Kingdom

Cluny Johnstone

Affiliation Department of Archaeology, University of York, York, United Kingdom

Jennifer Harland

Affiliation McDonald Institute for Archaeological Research, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, United Kingdom

Leif Jonsson

Affiliation Museum of Natural History, Gothenburg, Sweden

Dirk Heinrich

Affiliation Zoological Institute, Christian-Albrechts-Universität zu Kiel, Kiel, Germany

Inge Bødker Enghoff

Affiliation Natural History Museum of Denmark (Zoological Museum), University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark

Lembi Lõugas

Affiliation Department of Archaeobiology (Institute of History), University of Tallinn, Tallinn, Estonia

Wim Van Neer

Affiliations Royal Belgian Institute of Natural Sciences, Brussels, Belgium, Laboratory of Animal Biodiversity and Systematics, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Leuven, Belgium

Anton Ervynck

Affiliation Flemish Heritage Institute, Brussels, Belgium

Anne Karin Hufthammer

Affiliation Bergen Museum, University of Bergen, Bergen, Norway

Colin Amundsen

Affiliation Department of Archaeology and Social Anthropology, University of Tromsø, Tromsø, Norway

Andrew K. G. Jones

Affiliation York Archaeological Trust, York, United Kingdom

Alison Locker

Affiliation Escaldes-Engordany, Andorra

Sheila Hamilton-Dyer

Affiliation Southampton, United Kingdom

Peter Pope

Affiliation Department of Archaeology, Memorial University of Newfoundland, St. John's, Newfoundland, Canada

Brian R. MacKenzie

Affiliation National Institute for Aquatic Resources, Technical University of Denmark, Charlottenlund, Denmark

Michael Richards

Affiliations Department of Anthropology, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, Department of Human Evolution, Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Leipzig, Germany

Tamsin C. O'Connell

Affiliations McDonald Institute for Archaeological Research, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, United Kingdom, Department of Archaeology and Anthropology, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, United Kingdom

James H. Barrett

Affiliations McDonald Institute for Archaeological Research, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, United Kingdom, Department of Archaeology and Anthropology, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, United Kingdom

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: JB. Analyzed the data: DO. Wrote the paper: DO. Contributed to archaeological/historical interpretation: DM JB. Contributed to historical-ecological interpretation: BM. Sourced, collected and identified samples: CJ JH JB. Conducted stable isotope analyses: TdR MR TO. Contributed archaeological samples: DM LJ DH IE LL WVN AE AKH CA AJ AL SH-D PP JB.