About the Authors

Guy Bar-Oz

guybar@research.haifa.ac.il

Affiliation Zinman Institute of Archaeology, University of Haifa, Haifa, Israel

Pirhiya Nahshoni

Affiliation Department of Bible, Archaeology and Ancient Near Eastern Studies, Ben-Gurion University, Beer-Sheva, Israel

Hadas Motro

Affiliation Koret School of Veterinary Medicine, Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Rehovot, Israel

Eliezer D. Oren

Affiliation Department of Bible, Archaeology and Ancient Near Eastern Studies, Ben-Gurion University, Beer-Sheva, Israel

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: GBO PN EDO. Performed the experiments: GBO PN HM EDO. Analyzed the data: GBO PN EDO. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: GBO PN HM EDO. Wrote the paper: GBO PN EDO.