ESR/U-series study of teeth recovered from the palaeoanthropological stratum of the Dali Man site (Shaanxi Province, China)

Quaternary Geochronology

Volumn 6, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 98-105

  Yin, Gongming ^a   Bahain, Jean Jacques ^b   Shen, Guanjun ^c   Tissoux, Hélène ^b   Falguères, Christophe ^b   Dolo, Jean Michel ^d   Han, Fei ^a,b   Shao, Qingfeng ^b,c  

^a INSTITUTE OF GEOLOGY   (China)

^b MUSÉUM NATIONAL D'HISTOIRE NATURELLE   (France)

^c NANJING NORMAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^d LABORATOIRE NATIONAL HENRI BECQUEREL   (France)

Author keywords

Archaic Homo sapiens; China; ESR U series dating; Fluvial deposits; Loess palaeosoil sequence; Middle Pleistocene

Indexed keywords

CRANIUM; ELECTRON SPIN RESONANCE DATING; FLUVIAL DEPOSIT; GEOCHRONOLOGY; HOMINID; LOESS; PALEOSOL; PLEISTOCENE; TOOTH; URANIUM SERIES DATING;

CHINA; SHAANXI;

HOMO ERECTUS; HOMO HEIDELBERGENSIS; HOMO SAPIENS;

EID: 78449236191     PISSN: 18711014     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.quageo.2010.04.001     Document Type: Article

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