About the Authors

Richard W. Yerkes

Affiliation Department of Anthropology, Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio, United States of America

Hamudi Khalaily

Affiliation Israel Antiquities Authority, Jerusalem, Israel

Ran Barkai

barkaran@post.tau.ac.il

Affiliation Department of Archaeology, Tel-Aviv University, Tel-Aviv, Israel

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: RY HK RB. Performed the experiments: RY HK RB. Analyzed the data: RY RB. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: RY HK RB. Wrote the paper: RY RB.