Single-grain OSL dating at La Grotte des Contrebandiers ('Smugglers' Cave'), Morocco: Improved age constraints for the Middle Paleolithic levels

Journal of Archaeological Science

Volumn 38, Issue 12, 2011, Pages 3631-3643

  Jacobs, Z ^a   Meyer, M C ^a,b   Roberts, R G ^a   Aldeias, V ^c   Dibble, H ^c,d,e   El Hajraoui, M A ^f  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WOLLONGONG   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF INNSBRUCK   (Austria)

^c UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

^d MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR EVOLUTIONARY ANTHROPOLOGY   (Germany)

^e ARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^f Institut National des Sciences de l'Archeologie et du Patrimoine   (Morocco)

Author keywords

Aterian; Dose distributions; Middle Paleolithic; Middle Stone Age; MIS 5; Moroccan Mousterian; Morocco; OSL dating; Roof spall; Sand sized quartz; Sediment mixing; Single grains

Indexed keywords

AGE DETERMINATION; ARCHAEOLOGY; EXPERIMENTAL STUDY; LUMINESCENCE DATING; MIXING; PALEOLITHIC; QUARTZ; REMOBILIZATION; SANDSTONE; STONE AGE; STRATIGRAPHY;

MOROCCO;

EID: 80054098710     PISSN: 03054403     EISSN: 10959238     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jas.2011.08.033     Document Type: Article

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