Roberts, Patrick
Gillingwater, Thomas H.
Lahr, Marta Mirazon
Lee-Thorp, Julia
MacCallum, Malcolm
Petraglia, Michael
Wedage, Oshan
Heenbanda, Uruwaruge
Wainnya-laeto, Uruwaruge
Funding for this research was provided by:
Natural Environment Research Council
European Research Council (295719)
Article History
First Online: 24 April 2018
Compliance with Ethical Standards
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: Ethical permission for this study was obtained from the Council of Wanniyalaeto Elders in Sri Lanka. This project is also part of a wider project between the Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History and the Wanniyalaeto that has been granted ethical clearance by the Universitäts Klinikum Ethiks Kommittee, Friedrich Schiller Universität, Jena, Germany and the University of Jayawardenepura, Colombo, Sri Lanka.
: Authors Uruwaruge Heenbanda and Uruwaruge Wainnya-laeto are Wanniyalaeto elders and have a cultural interest in the results obtained. However, both ethics boards mentioned above found that there was no conflict of interest in their participation in this research. These authors were not responsible for the production of the data and primarily assisted in the cultural history and interpretation of the data reported in this manuscript. The remaining authors have no conflict of interest.