Correction to: Humanities and Social Sciences Communications https://doi.org/10.1057/s41599-021-00735-8, published online 2 March 2021.
The original paper did not include sites assigned to transitional Acheulean cultures, except for the Fauresmith in Africa. To ensure the analyses are correct, the authors have now removed Qesem Cave from the ‘North Africa and Near East’ and ‘Global 1b’ OLE models. While the earliest occupation at Qesem predates the Acheulo-Yabrudian (Barkai et al., 2003), the levels with dates young enough to be included in the models come from this transitional complex. The authors re-ran the ‘North Africa and Near East’ and ‘Global 1b’ OLE models with Qesem Cave removed. Its removal resulted in only minor changes to the inferred extinction dates for the two models. The Methods, Results and Conclusions remain entirely unchanged.
The original ‘North Africa and Near East’ model results were:
TE Mean Estimate | TE Resampling | TCI Mean Estimate | TCI Resampling |
175,892 | 174,938 | 143,176 | 147,052 |
The revised ‘North Africa and Near East’ model results are:
TE Mean Estimate | TE Resampling | TCI Mean Estimate | TCI Resampling |
174,288 | 173,806 | 135,189 | 140,456 |
The original ‘Global 1b’ model results were:
TE Mean Estimate | TE Resampling | TCI Mean Estimate | TCI Resampling |
61,572 | 66,818 | −63,770 | −42,652 |
The revised ‘Global 1b’ model results are:
TE Mean Estimate | TE Resampling | TCI Mean Estimate | TCI Resampling |
62,404 | 68,211 | −59,238 | −36,916 |
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Key, A.J.M., Jarić, I. & Roberts, D.L. Author Correction: Modelling the end of the Acheulean at global and continental levels suggests widespread persistence into the Middle Palaeolithic. Humanit Soc Sci Commun 8, 257 (2021). https://doi.org/10.1057/s41599-021-00932-5
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