Age of Zhoukoudian Homo erectus determined with 26Al/ 10Be burial dating

Nature

Volumn 458, Issue 7235, 2009, Pages 198-200

  Shen, Guanjun ^a   Gao, Xing ^b   Gao, Bin ^a   Granger, Darryl E ^c  

^a NANJING NORMAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b INSTITUTE OF VERTEBRATE PALEONTOLOGY AND PALEOANTHROPOLOGY   (China)

^c PURDUE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALUMINUM 26; BERYLLIUM; BERYLLIUM 10; RADIOISOTOPE; SILICON DIOXIDE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

AGE DETERMINATION; DATING METHOD; HOMINID; RADIONUCLIDE; STRATIGRAPHY; URANIUM SERIES DATING;

AGE; AGE DETERMINATION; ARTICLE; ARTIFACT; CHINA; FOSSIL; GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION; GRAVIMETRY; HALF LIFE TIME; HOMO ERECTUS; HUMAN; MASS SPECTROMETRY; PALEOANTHROPOLOGY; POSTHUMOUS CARE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEDIMENT; STRATIGRAPHY;

ANIMALS; FOSSILS; HOMINIDAE; RADIOISOTOPES; RADIOMETRIC DATING;

ASIA; CHINA; EURASIA; FAR EAST;

HOMO ERECTUS;

EID: 62249130852     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: 14764687     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nature07741     Document Type: Article

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