The assessment of radionuclide distribution in silex by autoradiography in the context of dose rate determination for thermoluminescence dating

Archaeometry

Volumn 55, Issue 3, 2013, Pages 407-422

  Schmidt, C ^a   Rufer, D ^b   Preusser, F ^c   Krbetschek, M ^d,e   Hilgers, A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COLOGNE   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BERN   (Switzerland)

^c STOCKHOLM UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^d TU BERGAKADEMIE FREIBERG   (Germany)

^e Freiberg Instruments   (Germany)

Author keywords

Dating; Dose rate; Flint; Luminescence; Microdosimetry; Tl; Uranium

Indexed keywords

CONCENTRATION (COMPOSITION); FLINT; PRECISION; QUALITATIVE ANALYSIS; RADIOGRAPHY; RADIONUCLIDE; THERMOLUMINESCENCE; URANIUM;

EID: 84875811834     PISSN: 0003813X     EISSN: 14754754     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1475-4754.2012.00690.x     Document Type: Article

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