Optical and thermoluminescence dating of Middle Stone Age and Kintampo bearing sediments at Birimi, a multi-component archaeological site in Ghana

Quaternary Science Reviews

Volumn 22, Issue 10-13, 2003, Pages 1291-1297

  Quickert, Nicole A ^a   Godfrey Smith, Dorothy I ^a   Casey, Joanna L ^b  

^a DALHOUSIE UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH CAROLINA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MOISTURE; SANDSTONE; SEDIMENTS; SMELTING; SOILS; THERMOLUMINESCENCE;

THERMOLUMINESCENCE DATING;

GEOCHRONOLOGY;

ARCHAEOLOGICAL EVIDENCE; CONFERENCE PROCEEDING; GEOCHRONOLOGY; LUMINESCENCE DATING; MESOLITHIC; SEDIMENT ANALYSIS; STONE AGE;

BIRIMI; GHANA;

EID: 0037507387     PISSN: 02773791     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0277-3791(03)00050-7     Document Type: Conference Paper

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