THE PETRALONA HOMINID SITE: URANIUM‐SERIES RE‐ANALYSIS OF ‘LAYER 10’CALCITE AND ASSSOCIATED PALAEOMAGNETIC ANALYSES

Separate sublayers of the ‘layer 10’calcite from the Mausoleum of Petralona Cave, Greece, have been re‐analysed by Uranium‐series and palaeomagnetic methods. The results confirm earlier findings that the whole of layer 10 represents a long time span, from about 160 ka to more than 350 ka, the latter being the dating limit of the U‐series method using alpha‐spectrometry. The minimum age refers to the upper brown sublayer that is now believed to …