About the Authors

Manuel Domínguez-Rodrigo

m.dominguez.rodrigo@gmail.com

Affiliations Instituto de Evolución en África, Museo de los Orígenes, Madrid, Spain, Department of Prehistory, Complutense University, Madrid, Spain

Travis Rayne Pickering

Affiliations Department of Anthropology, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, Wisconsin, United States of America, Evolutionary Studies Institute, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa, Plio-Pleistocene Palaeontology Section, Department of Vertebrates, Ditsong National Museum of Natural History (Transvaal Museum), Pretoria, South Africa

Enrique Baquedano

Affiliations Instituto de Evolución en África, Museo de los Orígenes, Madrid, Spain, Museo Arqueológico Regional, Plaza de las Bernardas s/n, Madrid, Spain

Audax Mabulla

Affiliation Archaeology Unit, University of Dar es Salaam, Dar es Salaam, Tanzania

Darren F. Mark

Affiliation Natural Environment Research Council Argon Isotope Facility, Scottish Universities Environmental Research Centre, East Kilbride, Scotland, United Kingdom

Charles Musiba

Affiliation Department of Anthropology, University of Colorado Denver, Denver, Colorado, United States of America

Henry T. Bunn

Affiliation Department of Anthropology, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, Wisconsin, United States of America

David Uribelarrea

Affiliation Department of Geodynamics, Complutense University, Madrid, Spain

Victoria Smith

Affiliation Research Laboratory for Archaeology and the History of Art, University of Oxford, Oxford, United Kingdom

Fernando Diez-Martin

Affiliation Department of Prehistory and Archaeology, University of Valladolid, Valladolid, Spain

Alfredo Pérez-González

Affiliation Centro Nacional de Investigación sobre la Evolución Humana, Burgos, Spain

Policarpo Sánchez

Affiliation Department of Prehistory and Archaeology, University of Valladolid, Valladolid, Spain

Manuel Santonja

Affiliation Centro Nacional de Investigación sobre la Evolución Humana, Burgos, Spain

Doris Barboni

Affiliation Centre Européen de Recherche et d'enseignement de Géosciences de l'Environnement, Aix-Marseille Université, Aix-en-Provence, France

Agness Gidna

Affiliations Instituto de Evolución en África, Museo de los Orígenes, Madrid, Spain, Paleontology Unit, National Museum of Tanzania, Dar es Salaam, Tanzania

Gail Ashley

Affiliation Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences, Rutgers University, Piscataway, New Jersey, United States of America

José Yravedra

Affiliation Department of Prehistory, Complutense University, Madrid, Spain

Jason L. Heaton

Affiliations Plio-Pleistocene Palaeontology Section, Department of Vertebrates, Ditsong National Museum of Natural History (Transvaal Museum), Pretoria, South Africa, Department of Biology, Birmingham-Southern College, Birmingham, Alabama, United States of America

Maria Carmen Arriaza

Affiliation Department of Prehistory, Complutense University, Madrid, Spain

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: MDR TRP. Performed the experiments: MDR TRP. Analyzed the data: MDR TRP CM DM VS JLH. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: DM VS. Wrote the paper: MDR TRP DM VS. Field work: EB AM HTB DU FDM APG PS MS DB AG GA JY MCA.