The challenge of dating early pleistocene fossil teeth by the combined uranium series-electron spin resonance method: The Venta Micena palaeontological site (Orce, Spain)

Journal of Quaternary Science

Volumn 26, Issue 6, 2011, Pages 603-615

  Duval, Mathieu ^a   Falguères, Christophe ^b   Bahain, Jean Jacques ^b   Grün, Rainer ^c   Shao, Qingfeng ^b   Aubert, Maxime ^c   Hellstrom, John ^d   Dolo, Jean Michel ^e   Agusti, Jordi ^f   Martínez Navarro, Bienvenido ^f   Palmqvist, Paul ^g   Toro Moyano, Isidro ^h  

^a CENTRO NACIONAL DE INVESTIGACIÓN SOBRE LA EVOLUCIÓN HUMANA CENIEH   (Spain)

^b MUSÉUM NATIONAL D'HISTOIRE NATURELLE   (France)

^c AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^d UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

^e LABORATOIRE NATIONAL HENRI BECQUEREL   (France)

^f INSTITUT CATALÀ DE PALEOECOLOGIA HUMANA I EVOLUCIÓ SOCIAL   (Spain)

^g UNIVERSITY OF MÁLAGA   (Spain)

^h Museo Arqueológico y Etnológico de Granada   (Spain)

Author keywords

Combined US ESR method; Early Pleistocene; Fossil teeth; U uptake; Venta Micena

Indexed keywords

BIOCHRONOLOGY; BIOSTRATIGRAPHY; ELECTRON SPIN RESONANCE DATING; FOSSIL RECORD; GEOCHRONOLOGY; PALEOMAGNETISM; PLEISTOCENE; PLIOCENE; RADIOMETRIC METHOD; TOOTH; URANIUM SERIES DATING;

ANDALUCIA; GRANADA [ANDALUCIA]; SPAIN; VENTA MICENA;

EID: 80051469414     PISSN: 02678179     EISSN: 10991417     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/jqs.1476     Document Type: Article

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