Optically stimulated luminescence dating using quartz

A Murray, LJ Arnold, JP Buylaert, G Guérin… - Nature Reviews …, 2021 - nature.com
Optically stimulated luminescence (OSL) signals from quartz can be used to determine when
sedimentary archives were deposited. OSL dating uses the accumulation of energy stored in …

Luminescence as a sediment tracer and provenance tool

HJ Gray, M Jain, AO Sawakuchi… - Reviews of …, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
Luminescence holds unique potential as a sediment tracer and provenance method. The
tracer application of luminescence has key advantages including ease of measurement …

Denisovan DNA in late pleistocene sediments from Baishiya Karst Cave on the Tibetan Plateau

D Zhang, H Xia, F Chen, B Li, V Slon, T Cheng, R Yang… - Science, 2020 - science.org
A late Middle Pleistocene mandible from Baishiya Karst Cave (BKC) on the Tibetan Plateau
has been inferred to be from a Denisovan, an Asian hominin related to Neanderthals, on the …

The absolute chronology of Boker Tachtit (Israel) and implications for the Middle to Upper Paleolithic transition in the Levant

E Boaretto, M Hernandez… - Proceedings of the …, 2021 - National Acad Sciences
The Initial Upper Paleolithic (IUP) is a crucial lithic assemblage type in the archaeology of
southwest Asia because it marks a dramatic shift in hominin populations accompanied by …

Counter-intuitive influence of Himalayan river morphodynamics on Indus Civilisation urban settlements

A Singh, KJ Thomsen, R Sinha, JP Buylaert… - Nature …, 2017 - nature.com
Urbanism in the Bronze-age Indus Civilisation (~ 4.6–3.9 thousand years before the present,
ka) has been linked to water resources provided by large Himalayan river systems, although …

[HTML][HTML] The earliest unambiguous neanderthal engravings on cave walls: La Roche-Cotard, Loire Valley, France

JC Marquet, TH Freiesleben, KJ Thomsen, AS Murray… - Plos one, 2023 - journals.plos.org
Here we report on Neanderthal engravings on a cave wall at La Roche-Cotard (LRC) in
central France, made more than 57±3 thousand years ago. Following human occupation …

Precise dating of the Middle-to-Upper Paleolithic transition in Murcia (Spain) supports late Neandertal persistence in Iberia

J Zilhão, D Anesin, T Aubry, E Badal, D Cabanes… - Heliyon, 2017 - cell.com
The late persistence in Southern Iberia of a Neandertal-associated Middle Paleolithic is
supported by the archeological stratigraphy and the radiocarbon and luminescence dating …

Review and assessment of the potential of post-IR IRSL dating methods to circumvent the problem of anomalous fading in feldspar luminescence

B Li, Z Jacobs, RG Roberts, SH Li - Geochronometria, 2014 - Springer
Quartz has been the main mineral used for optically stimulated luminescence (OSL) dating
of sediments over the last decade. The quartz OSL signal, however, has been shown to …

First reliable chronology for the Early Khvalynian Caspian Sea transgression in the Lower Volga River valley

R Kurbanov, A Murray, W Thompson, M Svistunov… - Boreas, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
During the late Quaternary, dramatic changes in relative sea level (~ 170 m) are known to
have occurred in the Caspian Sea. However, all previous attempts at resolving the …

A detailed post‐IR IRSL dating study of the Niuyangzigou loess site in northeastern China

S Yi, JP Buylaert, AS Murray, H Lu, C Thiel, L Zeng - Boreas, 2016 - Wiley Online Library
In this study, we report standard quartz SAR OSL and post‐IR infrared (IR) stimulated
luminescence (post‐IR IRSL; pIRIR 290) measurements made on sand‐sized quartz and K …