About the Authors

Nick Ashton

nashton@thebritishmuseum.ac.uk

Affiliations Department of Prehistory and Europe, British Museum, London, United Kingdom, Institute of Archaeology, University College London, London, United Kingdom

Simon G. Lewis

Affiliation School of Geography, Queen Mary University of London, London, United Kingdom

Isabelle De Groote

Affiliation Research Centre in Evolutionary Anthropology and Palaeoecology, Liverpool John Moores University, Liverpool, United Kingdom

Sarah M. Duffy

Affiliation Department of Archaeology, University of York, York, United Kingdom

Martin Bates

Affiliation Department of Archaeology, University of Wales Trinity St David, Lampeter, United Kingdom

Richard Bates

Affiliation School of Geography and Geosciences, University of Andrews, St Andrews, United Kingdom

Peter Hoare

Affiliation Department of Geology, Norwich Castle Museum & Art Gallery, Norwich, United Kingdom

Mark Lewis

Affiliation Department of Earth Sciences, Natural History Museum, London, United Kingdom

Simon A. Parfitt

Affiliations Institute of Archaeology, University College London, London, United Kingdom, Department of Earth Sciences, Natural History Museum, London, United Kingdom

Sylvia Peglar

Affiliation School of Botany, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, United Kingdom

Craig Williams

Affiliation Department of Prehistory and Europe, British Museum, London, United Kingdom

Chris Stringer

Affiliation Department of Earth Sciences, Natural History Museum, London, United Kingdom

Competing Interests

The authors declare that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: NA SGL S. Parfitt MB RB PH CS. Performed the experiments: NA SGL S. Parfitt PH MB RB SMD CW. Analyzed the data: NA SGL S. Parfitt IDG SMD ML S. Peglar CS. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: SMD ML S. Peglar CW. Wrote the paper: NA SGL IDG SMD MB RB PH ML S. Parfitt S. Peglar CW CS.