Contributors
Melissa Kennedy:
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8620-938X
Role: ConceptualizationRole: Data curationRole: Formal analysisRole: Funding acquisitionRole:
InvestigationRole: MethodologyRole: Project administrationRole: VisualizationRole:
Writing – original draftRole: Writing – review & editing
Laura Strolin: Role: Data curationRole: Formal analysisRole: MethodologyRole: Writing – original
draft
Jane McMahon: Role: ConceptualizationRole: Data curationRole: InvestigationRole: SoftwareRole: Writing
– review & editing
Daniel Franklin: Role: Formal analysisRole: MethodologyRole: Writing – original draft
Ambika Flavel: Role: Formal analysisRole: MethodologyRole: Writing – original draft
Jacqueline Noble: Role: Formal analysisRole: InvestigationRole: MethodologyRole: Writing – original
draft
Lauren Swift: Role: Formal analysisRole: MethodologyRole: Writing – review & editing
Ahmed Nassr:
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2553-1783
Role: Formal analysisRole: Writing – review & editing
Stewart Fallon: Role: Data curationRole: Formal analysisRole: Writing – original draft
Hugh Thomas: Role: ConceptualizationRole: Data curationRole: Funding acquisitionRole: InvestigationRole:
MethodologyRole: Project administrationRole: ResourcesRole: VisualizationRole: 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
Title:
PLOS ONE
Publisher:
Public Library of Science
(San Francisco, CA USA
)
ISSN
(Electronic):
1932-6203
Publication date
(Electronic):
15
March
2023
Publication date Collection: 2023
Volume: 18
Issue: 3
Electronic Location Identifier: e0281904
Affiliations
[1
]
Classics and Ancient History, University of Western Australia, Perth, Australia
[2
]
Museum of Natural History of Geneva, Geneva, Switzerland
[3
]
Forensic Anthropology, University of Western Australia, Perth, Australia
[4
]
Department of Tourism and Archaeology, College of Arts, University of Ha’il, Ha’il,
Saudi Arabia
[5
]
Research School of Earth Sciences, College of Science, Australian National University,
Canberra, Australia
Griffith University, AUSTRALIA
Author notes
Competing Interests: The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.
Author information
Article
Publisher ID:
PONE-D-22-25941
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0281904
PMC ID: 10016714
PubMed ID: 36920897
SO-VID: 7776de36-b390-4b54-8adb-9a4d40305b40
Copyright © © 2023 Kennedy 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
: 19
September
2022
Date
accepted
: 2
February
2023
Page count
Figures: 28,
Tables: 3,
Pages: 50
Funding
Funded by:
The Royal Commission for AlUla
Award Recipient
:
Hugh Thomas
HT, MK This work was funded by the Royal Commission for AlUla.
https://www.rcu.gov.sa/en/ The funders had no role in study design, data collection and analysis, decision to
publish, or preparation of the manuscript.
Categories
Subject:
Research Article
Subject:
Biology and Life Sciences
Subject:
Organisms
Subject:
Eukaryota
Subject:
Animals
Subject:
Vertebrates
Subject:
Amniotes
Subject:
Mammals
Subject:
Bovines
Subject:
Cattle
Subject:
Biology and Life Sciences
Subject:
Zoology
Subject:
Animals
Subject:
Vertebrates
Subject:
Amniotes
Subject:
Mammals
Subject:
Bovines
Subject:
Cattle
Subject:
Biology and Life Sciences
Subject:
Organisms
Subject:
Eukaryota
Subject:
Animals
Subject:
Vertebrates
Subject:
Amniotes
Subject:
Mammals
Subject:
Ruminants
Subject:
Cattle
Subject:
Biology and Life Sciences
Subject:
Zoology
Subject:
Animals
Subject:
Vertebrates
Subject:
Amniotes
Subject:
Mammals
Subject:
Ruminants
Subject:
Cattle
Subject:
Biology and Life Sciences
Subject:
Anatomy
Subject:
Animal Anatomy
Subject:
Animal Horns
Subject:
Medicine and Health Sciences
Subject:
Anatomy
Subject:
Animal Anatomy
Subject:
Animal Horns
Subject:
Biology and Life Sciences
Subject:
Zoology
Subject:
Animal Anatomy
Subject:
Animal Horns
Subject:
Biology and Life Sciences
Subject:
Anatomy
Subject:
Digestive System
Subject:
Teeth
Subject:
Medicine and Health Sciences
Subject:
Anatomy
Subject:
Digestive System
Subject:
Teeth
Subject:
Biology and Life Sciences
Subject:
Anatomy
Subject:
Head
Subject:
Jaw
Subject:
Teeth
Subject:
Medicine and Health Sciences
Subject:
Anatomy
Subject:
Head
Subject:
Jaw
Subject:
Teeth
Subject:
Biology and Life Sciences
Subject:
Organisms
Subject:
Eukaryota
Subject:
Animals
Subject:
Vertebrates
Subject:
Amniotes
Subject:
Mammals
Subject:
Ruminants
Subject:
Goats
Subject:
Biology and Life Sciences
Subject:
Zoology
Subject:
Animals
Subject:
Vertebrates
Subject:
Amniotes
Subject:
Mammals
Subject:
Ruminants
Subject:
Goats
Subject:
Biology and Life Sciences
Subject:
Organisms
Subject:
Eukaryota
Subject:
Animals
Subject:
Domestic Animals
Subject:
Biology and Life Sciences
Subject:
Zoology
Subject:
Animals
Subject:
Domestic Animals
Subject:
Earth Sciences
Subject:
Geology
Subject:
Geologic Time
Subject:
Stone Age
Subject:
Neolithic Period
Subject:
Social Sciences
Subject:
Archaeology
Subject:
Social Sciences
Subject:
Archaeology
Subject:
Archaeological Dating
Subject:
Radioactive Carbon Dating
Subject:
Research and Analysis Methods
Subject:
Chemical Characterization
Subject:
Isotope Analysis
Subject:
Radioactive Carbon Dating
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