About the Authors

Erin Kennedy Thornton

erinthornton@trentu.ca

Affiliation Trent University Archaeological Research Centre, Trent University, Peterborough, Ontario, Canada

Kitty F. Emery

Affiliation Florida Museum of Natural History, University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida, United States of America

David W. Steadman

Affiliation Florida Museum of Natural History, University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida, United States of America

Camilla Speller

Affiliations Ancient DNA Laboratory, Department of Archaeology, Simon Fraser University, Burnaby, British Columbia, Canada, Department of Archaeology, University of Calgary, Calgary, Alberta, Canada

Ray Matheny

Affiliation Department of Anthropology, Brigham Young University, Provo, Utah, United States of America

Dongya Yang

Affiliation Ancient DNA Laboratory, Department of Archaeology, Simon Fraser University, Burnaby, British Columbia, Canada

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: ET KE DS CS. Performed the experiments: ET KE DS CS. Analyzed the data: ET KE CS. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: RM DY. Wrote the paper: ET KE CS RM.