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Uranium-series dating and the origin of modern man
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Uranium-series dating and the origin of modern man

Abstract

Uranium-series dating is based on measurement of the radioactivity of short-lived daughter isotopes of uranium formed in samples which initially contained only the parent uranium. Materials suitable for U-series dating are found in many prehistoric archaeological sites, and include stalagmitic layers (flowstones), and spring-deposited travertines. Some marls and calcretes are also datable using isochron methods, whereas dates on molluscan …

Authors

Schwarcz HP

Journal

Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences, Vol. 337, No. 1280, pp. 131–137

Publisher

The Royal Society

Publication Date

August 29, 1992

DOI

10.1098/rstb.1992.0089

ISSN

0962-8436