U‐Pb dating of calcite is an emerging but rapidly growing field of application in
geochronology with great potential to inform problems in landscape, basin, and mountain …

Aragonite is one of the metastable polymorphs of calcium carbonate and is commonly found
at archaeological sites in the form of mollusk shells and speleothems. Other occurrences …

New ages for flowstone, sediments and fossil bones from the Dinaledi Chamber are
presented. We combined optically stimulated luminescence dating of sediments with U-Th …

Laser ablation inductively coupled plasma mass spectrometry (LA-ICP-MS) U–Pb
geochronology of carbonate minerals, calcite in particular, is rapidly gaining popularity as an …

Cave sediments pose dating challenges due to complex depositional and post-depositional
processes that operate during their transport and accumulation. Here, we confront these …

Newly exposed cave sediments at the Malapa site include a flowstone layer capping the
sedimentary unit containing the Australopithecus sediba fossils. Uranium-lead dating of the …

A decade ago, we summarised the South African and Lesotho Stone Age technocomplex
sequence as a heuristic exercise, anchored in 242 dated assemblages (Lombard et al …

Abstract The Cradle of Humankind (Cradle) in South Africa preserves a rich collection of
fossil hominins representing Australopithecus, Paranthropus and Homo. The ages of these …

Palaeomagnetic analysis was conducted on speleothems from Members 1–5 at Sterkfontein
Cave, South Africa. Palaeomagnetic analysis of siltstone and speleothem from the bulk of …

Over the past decade, we have applied laser ablation ICP mass spectrometry U-series
analysis to a large number of bones and teeth. The method is fast and provides high …