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. 2018 Apr 2;115(15):E3597. doi: 10.1073/pnas.1804206115

Correction for Bevan et al., Holocene fluctuations in human population demonstrate repeated links to food production and climate

PMCID: PMC5899504  PMID: 29610300

ANTHROPOLOGY, SUSTAINABILITY SCIENCE Correction for “Holocene fluctuations in human population demonstrate repeated links to food production and climate,” by Andrew Bevan, Sue Colledge, Dorian Fuller, Ralph Fyfe, Stephen Shennan, and Chris Stevens, which was first published November 20, 2017; 10.1073/pnas.1709190114 (Proc Natl Acad Sci USA 114:E10524–E10531).

The authors note that the Acknowledgments section appeared incorrectly. The authors apologize for the oversight. The full corrected Acknowledgments section is as follows.

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS. We thank the very considerable number of people and projects who took the original radiocarbon samples or collected the resulting published dates from secondary literature:

  • Burrow S, Williams S (2008) The Wales and Borders Radiocarbon Database, Amgueddfa Cymru: National Museum Wales (https://museum.wales/en/radiocarbon);

  • Radiocarbon Database CALPAL lead: Bernhard Weninger, including with CalPal software, monrepos-rgzm.de/forschung/ausstattung.html#calpal;

  • CBA (2012) Archaeological Site Index to Radiocarbon Dates from Great Britain and Ireland Council for British Archaeology Radiocarbon Index (lead: Mike Heyworth, archaeologydataservice.ac.uk/archives/view/c14_cba/);

  • Canmore Scottish Radiocarbon Database (former lead: Patrick Ashmore, https://canmore.org.uk/project/919374);

  • Chapple R (2015) Irish Radiocarbon and Dendrochronological Dates (https://sites.google.com/site/chapplearchaeology/irish-radiocarbon-dendrochronological-dates);

  • English Heritage Reports;

  • Jordan D, Haddon-Reece D, Bayliss A (1994) Radiocarbon Dates from Samples Funded by English Heritage and Dated Before 1981 (English Heritage);

  • Bayliss A, Bronk Ramsey C, Cook G, van der Plicht J (2007) Radiocarbon Dates from Samples Funded by English Heritage under the Aggregates Levy Sustainability Fund 2002-4 (English Heritage);

  • Bayliss A, Bronk Ramsey C, Cook G, van der Plicht J, McCormac G (2008) Radiocarbon Dates from Samples Funded by English Heritage under the Aggregates Levy Sustainability Fund 2004-7 (English Heritage);

  • Bayliss A, Hedges R, Otlet R, Switsur R, Walker J (2012) Radiocarbon Dates from Samples Funded by English Heritage between 1981 and 1988 (English Heritage);

  • Bayliss A, et al. (2013) Radiocarbon Dates from Samples Funded by English Heritage between 1988 and 1993 (English Heritage);

  • Bayliss A, Bronk Ramsey C, Cook G, McCormac G, Marshall P (2015) Radiocarbon Dates from Samples Funded by English Heritage between 1993 and 1998 (English Heritage);

  • Bayliss A, Bronk Ramsey C, Cook G, McCormac G, van der Plicht J (2016) Radiocarbon Dates from Samples Funded by English Heritage between 1998 and 2003 (English Heritage);

  • Manning K, Colledge S, Crema E, Shennan S, Timpson A (2016) The Cultural Evolution of Neolithic Europe. EUROEVOL Dataset 1: Sites, Phases and Radiocarbon Data, Journal of Open Archaeology Data 5, p e2 (lead: Stephen Shennan, doi.org/10.5334/joad.40);

  • Whittle A, Healy F, Bayliss A (2011) Gathering Time: Dating the Early Neolithic Enclosures of Southern Britain and Ireland (Oxbow, Oxford);

  • OASIS Grey Literature Library (archaeologydataservice.ac.uk/archives/view/greylit/) and ADS archives;

  • Database ORAU, https://c14.arch.ox.ac.uk/database/;

  • Oxford Laboratory/NERC database (www.c14.org.uk/publications.php);

  • RADON - Radiocarbon dates online (2014) Central European and Scandinavian database of 14C dates for the Neolithic and Early Bronze Age (lead: Martin Hinz, radon.ufg.uni-kiel.de/);

  • Online searches for British and Irish radiocarbon dates in the journals held by the JSTOR, Wiley, Springer, CUP, and Taylor & Francis portals (usually up to 2015)

Some 10% of this dataset was collected via online crowd-sourcing (under careful quality control) of the UK Archaeology Data Service’s grey literature library of excavation reports (also known as OASIS, for all reports archived up to February 2016) and we would like to thank the ADS and also the many volunteers who contributed online to MicroPasts (https://crowdsourced.micropasts.org). Further thanks for providing or enhancing larger groups of dates (and/or providing advice) are due to Denis Antoine, Alistair Barclay, Alex Bayliss, Samantha Brummage, Jennifer Beale, Andrew Chapman, Kevan Edinborough, Alan Hall, Meriel McClatchie, Alessio Palmisano, Paula Reimer, and Peter Schauer. If we have missed anyone out, we are sincerely sorry. We thank Enrico Crema, Mark Thomas, and Adrian Timpson for insightful discussion on methodology. Research by D.F. and C.S. was supported by European Research Council Grant 323842 on “Comparative Pathways to Agriculture.”


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