Dating the lower paleolithic open-air site of Holon, Israel by luminescence and ESR Techniques

Quaternary Research

Volumn 51, Issue 3, 1999, Pages 328-341

  Porat, Naomi ^a   Zhou, Li Ping ^b   Chazan, Michael ^c   Noy, Tamar ^d   Horwitz, Liora Kolska ^e  

^a GEOLOGICAL SURVEY OF ISRAEL   (Israel)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^d Israel Museum ^*  (Israel)

^e HEBREW UNIVERSITY OF JERUSALEM   (Israel)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ELECTRON SPIN RESONANCE DATING; LUMINESCENCE DATING; QUATERNARY;

HOLON; ISRAEL;

EID: 0032826823     PISSN: 00335894     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/qres.1999.2036     Document Type: Article

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