Contributors
Ravid Ekshtain:
ORCID: http://orcid.org/0000-0003-4718-9608
Role: ConceptualizationRole: Formal analysisRole: Funding acquisitionRole: InvestigationRole:
MethodologyRole: SoftwareRole: VisualizationRole: Writing – original draftRole: Writing
– review & editing
Ariel Malinsky-Buller: Role: ConceptualizationRole: Formal analysisRole: InvestigationRole: MethodologyRole:
VisualizationRole: Writing – original draftRole: Writing – review & editing
Noam Greenbaum: Role: Formal analysisRole: InvestigationRole: MethodologyRole: VisualizationRole:
Writing – original draftRole: Writing – review & editing
Netta Mitki: Role: Formal analysisRole: InvestigationRole: MethodologyRole: Writing – review &
editing
Mareike C. Stahlschmidt: Role: Formal analysisRole: InvestigationRole: MethodologyRole: Writing – review &
editing
Ruth Shahack-Gross: Role: Formal analysisRole: Funding acquisitionRole: InvestigationRole: MethodologyRole:
Writing – review & editing
Nadav Nir: Role: Formal analysisRole: InvestigationRole: Methodology
Naomi Porat: Role: Formal analysisRole: InvestigationRole: Methodology
Daniella E. Bar-Yosef Mayer: Role: InvestigationRole: Writing – review & editing
Reuven Yeshurun: Role: Formal analysisRole: InvestigationRole: MethodologyRole: Writing – review &
editing
Ella Been: Role: InvestigationRole: Writing – review & editing
Yoel Rak: Role: Investigation
Nuha Agha: Role: Formal analysisRole: Investigation
Lena Brailovsky: Role: Investigation
Masha Krakovsky: Role: Investigation
Polina Spivak: Role: Investigation
Micka Ullman: Role: Investigation
Ariel Vered: Role: Investigation
Omry Barzilai: Role: ConceptualizationRole: Funding acquisitionRole: InvestigationRole: MethodologyRole:
Writing – review & editing
Erella Hovers:
ORCID: http://orcid.org/0000-0002-7855-6573
Role: ConceptualizationRole: Formal analysisRole: Funding acquisitionRole: InvestigationRole:
MethodologyRole: VisualizationRole: Writing – original draftRole: Writing – review
& editing
Michael D. Petraglia: Role: Editor
Journal
Journal ID (nlm-ta): PLoS One
Journal ID (iso-abbrev): PLoS ONE
Journal ID (publisher-id): plos
Journal ID (pmc): plosone
Title:
PLoS ONE
Publisher:
Public Library of Science
(San Francisco, CA USA
)
ISSN
(Electronic):
1932-6203
Publication date
(Electronic):
26
June
2019
Publication date Collection: 2019
Volume: 14
Issue: 6
Electronic Location Identifier: e0215668
Affiliations
[1
]
The Institute of Archaeology, the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Jerusalem, Israel
[2
]
MONREPOS Archaeological Research Centre and Museum for Human Behavioural Evolution,
Germany
[3
]
Department of Geography & Environmental Studies, University of Haifa, Haifa, Israel
[4
]
School of Archaeology, University College Dublin, Dublin, Ireland
[5
]
Department of Maritime Civilizations, Recanati Institute of Maritime Studies, Charney
School of Marine Sciences, University of Haifa, Haifa, Israel
[6
]
Geological Survey of Israel, Jerusalem, Israel
[7
]
The Steinhardt Museum of Natural History, Tel Aviv University, Tel Aviv, Israel
[8
]
Zinman Institute of Archaeology, University of Haifa, Haifa, Israel
[9
]
Faculty of Health Professions, Ono Academic College, Kiryat Ono, Israel
[10
]
Department of Anatomy and Anthropology, Sackler Faculty of Medicine, Tel Aviv University,
Tel Aviv, Israel
[11
]
Israel Antiquities Authority, Jerusalem, Israel
[12
]
Department of Bible, Archaeology, and Ancient Near Eastern Studies, Ben-Gurion University
of the Negev, Beer-Sheva, Israel
Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History, GERMANY
Author notes
Competing Interests: The authors received funding from Derekh Eretz Inc. This does not alter our adherence
to all the PLOS ONE policies on sharing data and materials.
[¤a]
Current address: Max-Planck-Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Leipzig, Germany.
[¤b]
Current address: Department of Anatomy and Anthropology, Sackler Faculty of Medicine,
Tel Aviv University, Tel Aviv, Israel.
[¤c]
Current address: International Research Affiliate, Institute of Human Origins, Arizona
State University, Tempe, Arizona, Unites state of America.
Author information
Article
Publisher ID:
PONE-D-18-34965
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0215668
PMC ID: 6594589
PubMed ID: 31242180
SO-VID: 2c4b1c16-9621-4079-aee3-263e012b957e
Copyright © © 2019 Ekshtain et al
License:
This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the
Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided
the original author and source are credited.
History
Date
received
: 6
December
2018
Date
accepted
: 6
April
2019
Page count
Figures: 16,
Tables: 1,
Pages: 34
Funding
Funded by: Derekh Eretz Inc.
Award Recipient
:
Omry Barzilai
Funded by: funder-id http://dx.doi.org/10.13039/100006363, National Geographic Society;
Award ID: 8943-11
Award Recipient
:
ORCID: http://orcid.org/0000-0002-7855-6573
Erella Hovers
Funded by: funder-id http://dx.doi.org/10.13039/100005966, Leakey Foundation;
Award Recipient
:
ORCID: http://orcid.org/0000-0002-7855-6573
Erella Hovers
Funded by: Irene Levi-Sala CARE Foundation
Award Recipient
:
ORCID: http://orcid.org/0000-0002-7855-6573
Erella Hovers
Funded by: funder-id http://dx.doi.org/10.13039/501100003977, Israel Science Foundation;
Award ID: 1232-2015
Award Recipient
:
ORCID: http://orcid.org/0000-0002-7855-6573
Erella Hovers
Funded by: Kimmel Center for Archaeological Science, Weizmann Institute of Science
Award Recipient
:
Ruth Shahack-Gross
Funded by: Athene programme of the University of Tübingen
Award Recipient
:
Mareike C. Stahlschmidt
Funded by: David Gita & Michael Hoffman Memorial Scholarships, Institute of Archaeology, The
Hebrew University of Jerusalem
Award Recipient
:
Nadav Nir
Funded by: Palumbo Carasso Scholarship Fund in Archeology, Institute of Archaeology, The Hebrew
University of Jerusalem
Award Recipient
:
Nadav Nir
This research was funded by Derekh Eretz Inc. (E.H., O.B., R. E., A.M.-B.), National
Geographic Society grant #8943-11 and The Leakey Foundation, (E.H.), Irene-Levi Sala
CARE Foundation (E.H., R.E.); Israel Science Foundation Grant #1232-2015 (E.H.); Kimmel
Center for Archaeological Science, Weizmann Institute of Science (R.S.-G.); David
Gita & Michael Hoffman Memorial Scholarship and the Palumbo Carasso Scholarship Fund
in Archeology, the Institute of Archaeology, Hebrew University of Jerusalem (N.N.);
Athene programme of the University of Tübingen (M.C.S.). The funders had no role in
study design, data collection and analysis, decision to publish, or preparation of
the manuscript.
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