An attempt at dating the Swanscombe skull bones using non-destructive gamma-ray counting

Archaeometry

Volumn 39, Issue 1, 1997, Pages 205-216

  Barton, J C ^a   Stringer, C B ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b DEPARTMENT OF LIFE SCIENCES   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Britain; Dating; Fossil hominid; Kent; Middle Pleistocene; Swanscombe; Uranium series dating

Indexed keywords

EID: 0031542680     PISSN: 0003813X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1475-4754.1997.tb00799.x     Document Type: Article

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