How confident are we in the chronology of the transition between Howieson's Poort and Still Bay?

Journal of Human Evolution

Volumn 64, Issue 4, 2013, Pages 314-317

  Guérin, Guillaume ^a   Murray, Andrew S ^b   Jain, Mayank ^a   Thomsen, Kristina J ^a   Mercier, Norbert ^c  

^a TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF DENMARK   (Denmark)

^b AARHUS UNIVERSITY   (Denmark)

^c Centre de Recherche en Physique Appliquée à l'Archéologie ^*  (France)

Author keywords

Dose rate modelling; Middle Stone age; OSL dating; Single grain

Indexed keywords

CHRONOLOGY; LUMINESCENCE DATING; STONE AGE;

SOUTH AFRICA; STILL BAY; WESTERN CAPE;

EID: 84875230424     PISSN: 00472484     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jhevol.2013.01.006     Document Type: Article

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