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 …

Review of the post-IR IRSL dating protocols of K-feldspar

J Zhang, SH Li - Methods and protocols, 2020 - mdpi.com
Compared to quartz, the infrared stimulated luminescence (IRSL) of K-feldspar saturates at
higher dose, which has great potential for extending the dating limit. However, dating …

Environmental influences on human innovation and behavioural diversity in southern Africa 92–80 thousand years ago

A Mackay, SJ Armitage, EM Niespolo… - Nature Ecology & …, 2022 - nature.com
Abstract Africa's Middle Stone Age preserves sporadic evidence for novel behaviours
among early modern humans, prompting a range of questions about the influence of social …

Late Middle Pleistocene Levallois stone-tool technology in southwest China

Y Hu, B Marwick, JF Zhang, X Rui, YM Hou, JP Yue… - Nature, 2019 - nature.com
Levallois approaches are one of the best known variants of prepared-core technologies, and
are an important hallmark of stone technologies developed around 300,000 years ago in …

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 …

Plio‐Pleistocene increase of erosion rates in mountain belts in response to climate change

F Herman, JD Champagnac - Terra Nova, 2016 - Wiley Online Library
Here, we review an ensemble of observations that point towards a global increase of
erosion rates in regions of elevated mountain belts, or otherwise high relief, since the onset …

[PDF][PDF] Single-aliquot regenerative-dose (SAR) and standardised growth curve (SGC) equivalent dose determination in a batch model using the R Package 'numOSL'

J Peng, B Li - Ancient TL, 2017 - researchgate.net
The single-aliquot regenerative-dose (SAR) protocol is widely used for determining
equivalent dose (De) in optically stimulated luminescence (OSL) dating of Quaternary …

Prompt isothermal decay of thermoluminescence in MgB4O7: Dy, Na and LiB4O7: Cu, In dosimeters

G Kitis, GS Polymeris, IK Sfampa, M Prokic… - Radiation …, 2016 - Elsevier
According to standard delocalized kinetic models of thermoluminescence (TL), when an
irradiated sample is held at a high temperature T, the isothermal TL signal will decay with a …

Multi-OSL-thermochronometry of feldspar

GE King, F Herman, R Lambert, PG Valla… - Quaternary …, 2016 - Elsevier
Optically stimulated luminescence (OSL)-thermochronometry has recently been proposed
as a tool capable of resolving cooling histories from the top 1–2 km of the Earth's crust. This …