Evaluating the accuracy of ESR dose determination of pseudo-Early Pleistocene fossil tooth enamel samples using dose recovery tests

Radiation Measurements

Volumn 79, Issue , 2015, Pages 24-32

  Duval, Mathieu ^a,b  

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

^b AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Dose recovery test; Early Pleistocene; ESR dating dosimetry; Fossil tooth enamel

Indexed keywords

ENAMELS; FUNCTION EVALUATION; RECOVERY;

DOSE RECONSTRUCTION; EARLY PLEISTOCENE; FITTING FUNCTIONS; FOSSIL TOOTH ENAMEL; RADIATION-INDUCED; RECOVERY TEST; REPRODUCIBILITIES; SOURCES OF UNCERTAINTY;

TOOTH ENAMEL;

EID: 84936757201     PISSN: 13504487     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.radmeas.2015.06.004     Document Type: Article

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