Human occupation of the Arabian empty quarter during MIS 5: evidence from Mundafan Al-Buhayrah, Saudi Arabia

HS Groucutt, TS White, L Clark-Balzan, A Parton… - Quaternary Science …, 2015 - Elsevier
Abstract The Empty Quarter (or Rub'al Khali) of the Arabian Peninsula is the largest
continuous sandy desert in the world. It has been known for several decades that Late …

Geomorphic, environmental, and archeological significance of Last Glacial Maximum to middle Holocene dune damming, northwestern Negev dunefield margin, Israel

L Robins, J Roskin, O Marder, L Edeltin, LP Yu… - Quaternary Science …, 2023 - Elsevier
Aeolian-Fluvial (AF) stratigraphic sequences record the bilateral impact of aeolian and
fluvial systems upon each other. Along dunefield margins, AF sequences document shifts …

Optical dating in archaeology: thirty years in retrospect and grand challenges for the future

RG Roberts, Z Jacobs, B Li, NR Jankowski… - Journal of …, 2015 - Elsevier
Abstract In 1982, when Richard Klein first became one of the Editors of this journal, the
luminescence dating community was embarking on a new phase of exploratory research …

Modelling dose rate to single grains of quartz in well-sorted sand samples: the dispersion arising from the presence of potassium feldspars and implications for single …

G Guérin, M Jain, KJ Thomsen, AS Murray… - Quaternary …, 2015 - Elsevier
Single grain OSL has become a widely used approach in Quaternary geochronology.
However, the origins of D e distributions and the sources of variation in individual dose …

Single-grain OSL chronologies for the Still Bay and Howieson's Poort industries and the transition between them: Further analyses and statistical modelling

Z Jacobs, RG Roberts - Journal of Human Evolution, 2017 - Elsevier
The chronology of the Still Bay (SB) and Howieson's Poort (HP) lithic industries remains an
issue of keen interest because of the central role of these two phases of technological and …

[HTML][HTML] Optical dating of sediments affected by post-depositional mixing: Modelling, synthesizing and implications

J Peng, B Li, Z Jacobs, LA Gliganic - Catena, 2023 - Elsevier
One of the biggest challenges in optically stimulated luminescence (OSL) dating is to deal
with sediments that are affected by post-depositional mixing. Equivalent dose (D e) …

[HTML][HTML] Empirical assessment of beta dose heterogeneity in sediments: Implications for luminescence dating

RK Smedley, GAT Duller, D Rufer, JEP Utley - Quaternary geochronology, 2020 - Elsevier
Optically stimulated luminescence (OSL) dating of single grains is often required to
determine an accurate age for partially-bleached sediment by identifying those grains with …

High-resolution portable-OSL analysis of Vegetated Linear Dune construction in the margins of the northwestern Negev dunefield (Israel) during the late Quaternary

L Robins, N Greenbaum, LP Yu, R Bookman, J Roskin - Aeolian Research, 2021 - Elsevier
Abstract Vegetated Linear Dunes (VLDs) are elongated dunes whose construction is
controlled by vegetation and wind. Common in southern hemisphere drylands, they were …

Beta dose heterogeneity in sediment samples measured using a Timepix pixelated detector and its implications for optical dating of individual mineral grains

X Fu, AA Romanyukha, B Li, NR Jankowski… - Quaternary …, 2022 - Elsevier
Single-grain optical dating has been widely used to estimate depositional ages for
Quaternary sediments. An understanding of the sources influencing the dispersion of …

Validation of the LnTn method for De determination in optical dating of K-feldspar and quartz

B Li, Z Jacobs, RG Roberts - Quaternary Geochronology, 2020 - Elsevier
In optical dating, equivalent dose (D e) values for a sample are commonly obtained from
measurement of the luminescence signals of individual mineral grains or aliquots and …