Age of the Mousterian industry at Hayonim Cave, Northern Israel, using electron spin resonance and 230Th/234U methods

Electron spin resonance (ESR) analysis was done on teeth excavated at Hayonim between 1993 and 1997. 230Th/234U analysis was done on two of these teeth and one calcite speleothem excavated in 1992. Small amounts of uranium uptake into teeth provided nearly ideal conditions for ESR age determinations. The combined ESR/230Th/234U analyses on teeth confirmed that uranium uptake occurred according to values constrained by early (EU) and linear (LU) …