Optical Dating Results for British Archaeological Sediments

Archaeometry

Volumn 39, Issue 1, 1997, Pages 177-187

  Rees Jones, J ^a,b   Tite, M S ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^b Camoy's Court ^*  (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

A value; Annual dose; Bleaching; Equivalent dose; Feldspars; Growth curve; Intercept correction; Optically stimulated luminescence; Palaeodose; Preheat plateau; Quartz; Recuperation; Shine Plateau

Indexed keywords

EID: 0031540139     PISSN: 0003813X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1475-4754.1997.tb00797.x     Document Type: Article

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