Palaeoenvironment and dating of the Early Acheulean localities from the Somme River basin (Northern France): new discoveries from the high terrace at Abbeville …

P Antoine, MH Moncel, N Limondin-Lozouet… - Quaternary Science …, 2016 - Elsevier
Dating the earliest human occupations in Western Europe and reconstructing links with
climatic and environmental constraints is a central issue in Quaternary studies. Amongst the …

Age and formation processes of an Acheulean site with extensive accumulation of large cutting tools: Garba I (Melka Kunture, Upper Awash, Ethiopia)

S Sánchez-Dehesa Galán, E Méndez-Quintas… - Archaeological and …, 2022 - Springer
The paper provides new data on the age and formation processes of Garba I (Melka
Kunture, Upper Awash, Ethiopia). The site, one of the largest handaxe accumulations of the …

Electron spin resonance dating of optically bleached quartz grains from the Middle Palaeolithic site of Cuesta de la Bajada (Spain) using the multiple centres …

M Duval, LJ Arnold, V Guilarte, M Demuro… - Quaternary …, 2017 - Elsevier
Electron spin resonance (ESR) dating of optically bleached quartz grains was performed on
three sediment samples collected from the Middle Palaeolithic site of Cuesta de la Bajada …

ESR dosimetry of optically bleached quartz grains extracted from Plio-Quaternary sediment: evaluating some key aspects of the ESR signals associated to the Ti …

M Duval, V Guilarte - Radiation measurements, 2015 - Elsevier
The present study aims at investigating several key aspects of ESR dose reconstruction of
quartz grains based on the analysis of the Ti-center:(i) the evaluation of the ESR intensity,(ii) …

Quartz natural and laboratory ESR dose response curves: A first attempt from Chinese loess

S Tsukamoto, H Long, M Richter, Y Li, GE King… - Radiation …, 2018 - Elsevier
The natural electron spin resonance (ESR) dose response curve (DRC) of the Al and Ti
centres was constructed for the first time using sand-sized quartz samples from Luochuan …

On the interest of using the multiple center approach in ESR dating of optically bleached quartz grains: Some examples from the Early Pleistocene terraces of the …

M Duval, C Sancho, M Calle, V Guilarte… - Quaternary …, 2015 - Elsevier
The present work reports the first numerical ages obtained for the two highest fluvial terraces
(Qt1 and Qt2) of the Alcanadre River system (Northeastern Spain) representing the earliest …

[HTML][HTML] Bleaching studies on Al-hole ([AlO4/h] 0) electron spin resonance (ESR) signal in sedimentary quartz

A Timar-Gabor, A Chruścińska, K Benzid… - Radiation …, 2020 - Elsevier
Electron spin resonance (ESR) dating of sediments using quartz is most commonly used for
older sediments (> 100 ka), since large residuals render the ESR signal unsuitable for …

Evaluation of ESR residual dose in quartz modern samples, an investigation on environmental dependence

P Voinchet, S Toyoda, C Falguères… - Quaternary …, 2015 - Elsevier
Luminescence and ESR dating methods of quartz sediment are based on the natural
resetting of the signal by light exposure (optical bleaching). When the bleaching is …

Paramagnetic lattice defects in quartz for applications to ESR dating

S Toyoda - Quaternary Geochronology, 2015 - Elsevier
Quartz is one of the minerals useful for ESR dating with many applications. Although the
study has quite a long history since 1980's, ESR dating of quartz is still in a developing …

ESR dating applied to optically bleached quartz-a comparison with 40Ar/39Ar chronologies on Italian Middle Pleistocene sequences

P Voinchet, A Pereira, S Nomade, C Falguères… - Quaternary …, 2020 - Elsevier
The geological sequences of numerous Lower and Middle Palaeolithic sites of central and
southern Italy, found in fluvio-lacustrine contexts and rich both in archaeological and …