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2013

Richard G Roberts

Optical

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Progress In Optical Dating Of Guano-Rich Sediments Associated With The Deep Skull, West Mouth Of The Great Cave Of Niah, Sarawak, Borneo, Mark Stephens, Richard Roberts, O Lian, Hiroyuki Yoshida Mar 2013

Progress In Optical Dating Of Guano-Rich Sediments Associated With The Deep Skull, West Mouth Of The Great Cave Of Niah, Sarawak, Borneo, Mark Stephens, Richard Roberts, O Lian, Hiroyuki Yoshida

Richard G Roberts

The West Mouth of the Great Cave of Niah is one of the major archaeological sites in Southeast Asia; the radiocarbon chronology of this site currently places the earliest presence of Homo sapiens (a Deep Skull find) in Southeast Asia at about 45 ka BP. An optical dating programme using sand-sized quartz was initiated in the West Mouth to complement the radiocarbon chronology. This paper reports on the progress in dating a key sample (sample 376r) that was taken from deposits containing the Deep Skull. A somewhat novel procedure was developed to separate and clean quartz grains from the unusual …


Equivalent Dose Distributions From Single Grains Of Quartz At Sibudu, South Africa: Context, Causes And Consequences For Optical Dating Of Archaeological Deposits, Richard Roberts, Zenobia Jacobs, Geoffrey Duller, Ann Wintle Mar 2013

Equivalent Dose Distributions From Single Grains Of Quartz At Sibudu, South Africa: Context, Causes And Consequences For Optical Dating Of Archaeological Deposits, Richard Roberts, Zenobia Jacobs, Geoffrey Duller, Ann Wintle

Richard G Roberts

No abstract provided.


Optical Dating Of Perennially Frozen Deposits Associated With Preserved Ancient Plant And Animal Dna In North-Central Siberia, Richard Roberts, Lee Arnold, F Brock, E Willerslev, A Tikhonov, R Macphee Mar 2013

Optical Dating Of Perennially Frozen Deposits Associated With Preserved Ancient Plant And Animal Dna In North-Central Siberia, Richard Roberts, Lee Arnold, F Brock, E Willerslev, A Tikhonov, R Macphee

Richard G Roberts

No abstract provided.


Single-Grain Optical Dating Of Grave-Infill Associated With Human Burials At Lake Mungo Australia, Jonathon Olley, Richard Roberts, Hiroyuki Yoshida, James M Bowler Mar 2013

Single-Grain Optical Dating Of Grave-Infill Associated With Human Burials At Lake Mungo Australia, Jonathon Olley, Richard Roberts, Hiroyuki Yoshida, James M Bowler

Richard G Roberts

Recent age constraints on Australia's oldest human remains (Mungo I and III), found at Lake Mungo in western New South Wales, relied on optical dating of sands from the same stratigraphic units as those into which the remains had been inserted (42±3 ka) and those that overlay the graves (38±2 ka), giving a burial age of 40±2 ka. This indirect means of dating the burials was necessary because the original site from which the remains had been excavated had been completely eroded away. At the time of the original excavation of the Mungo III grave, blocks of sediment from the …


A Revised Burial Dose Estimation Procedure For Optical Dating Of Young And Modern-Age Sediments, Richard Roberts, Lee Arnold, R.F. Galbraith, S Delong Mar 2013

A Revised Burial Dose Estimation Procedure For Optical Dating Of Young And Modern-Age Sediments, Richard Roberts, Lee Arnold, R.F. Galbraith, S Delong

Richard G Roberts

No abstract provided.