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Publisher Correction: In this Article, a processing error led to the wrong versions of Fig. 3 and
Extended Data Fig. 4 being published. Figure 3e did not include the
entirety of the eastern Africa soil carbonate δ13C database as compiled
Indo-Pacific Walker by ref. 13. Fig. 3 of the original Article has been corrected, and Fig. 1 of
this Amendment shows the original and corrected Fig. 3 side by side, for
circulation drove transparency. In the Methods section of the original Article, there are
further details about how this record has been produced. The last para-

Pleistocene African graph of the Methods has been corrected; the original text was: “On the
basis of ref. 13, time series of δ13C values from soil carbonate were com-

aridification bined for the Omo-Turkana Basin and the southern Kenyan-Tanzanian
sites using their medians, and interquartile ranges using six-data-point
bins.” Furthermore, the original version of Extended Data Fig. 4 did
not display data from eastern African hominin site Afar; the figure and
caption have been updated accordingly, and the original and corrected
versions are shown as Fig. 2 to this Amendment. These changes do not
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H. J. L. van der Lubbe, I. R. Hall, S. Barker, S. R. Hemming, T. F. Baars,

A. Starr, J. Just, B. C. Backeberg & J. C. A. Joordens

Original Fig. 3 Corrected Fig. 3

Age (Ma) Age (Ma)

0 0.5 1 1.5 2 2.5 3 0 0.5 1 1.5 2 2.5 3
f f
Earliest hominin tools & fossils Earliest hominin tools & fossils
H. sapiens H. erectus outside Africa H. sapiens H. erectus outside Africa
H. habilis Homo sp. H. habilis Homo sp.
e 2
H. rudolfensis
e 2
H. rudolfensis
East African Soil carbonate δ13C (‰)

East African Soil carbonate δ13C (‰)

0 0
+ +
-2 –2
90% 90%
NE African Aridity

NE African Aridity
grassland
–4
grassland

-4

Open
Open

-6 –6
60% 60%
_ –
-8 –8

-10 –10
2.8 2.8
Terrigenous dust flux (g/cm2/ka)

Terrigenous dust flux (g/cm2/ka)

Arabian and NE African aridity

+ +
d 2.3 d 2.3
NE African aridity

1.8 1.8

1.3 1.3

0.8 0.8
_ –
c 8
0.3
c 8
0.3

5 5
ΔMCT flow speed (cm s-1)

ΔMCT flow speed (cm s-1)

6 6
4 4

3 3
4 4
2 2
ΔSST E-W (°C)

ΔSST E-W (°C)

2 2 1
1

0 0
0 0
-1 –1

-2 -2 –2 –2

-3 –3
b MIS 11 21 35 b MIS 11 21 35
2 6 10 14 18 30 50 64 78 G2 KM2 -4 2 6 10 14 18 30 50 64 78 –4
a 2.5 4 8 12 16 3 a 2.5 4 8 12 16
3
δ18Obenthic VPDB (‰)

δ18Obenthic VPDB (‰)

δ18Obenthic VPDB (‰)

δ18Obenthic VPDB (‰)

3 3.5 3 3.5
Prob-stack

Prob-stack
U1476

U1476

3.5 4 3.5 4

4 4.5 4 4.5

4.5 5 4.5 5
0 0.5 1 1.5 2 2.5 3 0 0.5 1 1.5 2 2.5 3
Age (Ma) Age (Ma)

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