Journal
ELEMENTS
Volume 14, Issue 1, Pages 27-32Publisher
MINERALOGICAL SOC AMER
DOI: 10.2138/gselements.14.1.27
Keywords
modern humans; archaic humans; Neanderthals; Denisovans; thermoluminescence dating; optical dating
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- Australian Research Council [FL130100116, FT150100138]
- Australian Research Council [FL130100116, FT150100138] Funding Source: Australian Research Council
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Luminescence dating has been instrumental in constraining the age of archaeological and human skeletal remains. Thermoluminescence dating was applied originally to heated pottery and burnt flint, and optical dating was developed subsequently to estimate the depositional age of sun-bleached sediments associated with artefacts and fossils. These methods have helped establish numerical timelines for human evolution and dispersals over the last half million years, including the earliest evidence for modern humans in Africa, Asia and Australia, and the comings and goings of archaic humans in Eurasia and Indonesia. Here, we recount the major role that luminescence dating has played recently in enriching our understanding of global human history.
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