About the Authors

Umberto Lombardo

lombardo@giub.unibe.ch

Affiliation Institute of Geography, University of Bern, Bern, Switzerland

Katherine Szabo

Affiliation School of Earth & Environmental Sciences, University of Wollongong, Wollongong, Australia

José M. Capriles

Affiliation Center for Comparative Archaeology, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States of America

Jan-Hendrik May

Affiliation School of Earth & Environmental Sciences, University of Wollongong, Wollongong, Australia

Wulf Amelung

Affiliation Institute of Crop Science and Resource Conservation, University of Bonn, Bonn, Germany

Rainer Hutterer

Affiliation Zoologisches Forschungsmuseum Alexander Koenig, Bonn, Germany

Eva Lehndorff

Affiliation Institute of Crop Science and Resource Conservation, University of Bonn, Bonn, Germany

Anna Plotzki

Affiliation Institute of Geography, University of Bern, Bern, Switzerland

Heinz Veit

Affiliation Institute of Geography, University of Bern, Bern, Switzerland

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: UL. Wrote the paper: UL KS JMC JM. Did the field work: UL JMC JM AP HV. Performed steroid and BC analysis: WA EL. Performed LoI, XRD and thin sections analysis: UL. Secured funding: HV. Discussed the results and reviewed the text: UL KS JMC JM WA RH EL AP HV.