Since 2018, excavations at Crvena Stijena have been funded by the U.S. National Science Foundation Grant BCS-1758285, the Ministry of Culture of Montenegro, and the Academy of Sciences of Montenegro.

E. Morin’s work is supported by the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada.

P. Vidal’s work is funded by Grant IJC2020-043481-I funded by MCIN/AEI/ 10.13039/501100011033 and by “European Union NextGenerationEU/PRTR”.

A. Carrancho’s acknowledges the financial support of project PID2019-105796GB-I00 of Agencia Estatal de Investigación from Spain (AEI/10.13039/501100011033).

C. Mallol is funded by the PALEOCHAR project, European Research Council Consolidator Grant ERC-CoG-2014-648871.

K. Bogićević is financed through the NEEMO Project of the Science Fund of the Republic of Serbia No.7746827 and the Agreement on the Realization and Financing of Scientific Research Work of the SRO in 2022, no. 451-03-68/2022-14 /200126.

E. Boaretto’s research is supported by the Exilarch Foundation for the Dangoor Research Accelerator Mass Spectrometer (D-REAMS) Laboratory. She also wishes to thank the Kimmel Center for Archaeological Science and George Schwartzman Fund for the laboratory and funding support for the material analysis.