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New Ages For Middle And Later Stone Age Deposits At Mumba Rockshelter, Tanzania: Optically Stimulated Luminescence Dating Of Quartz And Feldspar Grains, Luke Gliganic, Zenobia Jacobs, Richard Roberts, M Dominguez-Rodrigo, A Mabulla Mar 2013

New Ages For Middle And Later Stone Age Deposits At Mumba Rockshelter, Tanzania: Optically Stimulated Luminescence Dating Of Quartz And Feldspar Grains, Luke Gliganic, Zenobia Jacobs, Richard Roberts, M Dominguez-Rodrigo, A Mabulla

Richard G Roberts

The archaeological deposits at Mumba rockshelter, northern Tanzania, have been excavated for more than 70 years, starting with Margit and Ludwig Köhl-Larsen in the 1930s. The assemblages of Middle Stone Age (MSA) and Later Stone Age (LSA) artefacts collected from this site constitute the type sequences for these cultural phases in East Africa. Despite its archaeological importance, however, the chronology of the site is poorly constrained, despite the application since the 1980s of several dating methods (radiocarbon, uranium-series and amino acid racemisation) to a variety of materials recovered from the deposits. Here, we review these previous chronologies for Mumba and …


Optically Stimulated Luminescence Dating Of Single And Multiple Grains Of Quartz From Perennially Frozen Loess In Western Yukon Territory, Canada: Comparison With Radiocarbon Chronologies For The Late Pleistocene Dawson Tephra, Richard Roberts, Lee Arnold, Martina Demuro, F Brock, D Froese, C Bronk Ramsey Mar 2013

Optically Stimulated Luminescence Dating Of Single And Multiple Grains Of Quartz From Perennially Frozen Loess In Western Yukon Territory, Canada: Comparison With Radiocarbon Chronologies For The Late Pleistocene Dawson Tephra, Richard Roberts, Lee Arnold, Martina Demuro, F Brock, D Froese, C Bronk Ramsey

Richard G Roberts

No abstract provided.


Dating The Quaternary: Progress In Luminescence Dating Of Sediments, Richard Roberts, O Lian Mar 2013

Dating The Quaternary: Progress In Luminescence Dating Of Sediments, Richard Roberts, O Lian

Richard G Roberts

No abstract provided.


Advances In Optically Stimulated Luminescence Dating Of Individual Grains Of Quartz From Archaeological Deposits, Richard Roberts, Zenobia Jacobs Mar 2013

Advances In Optically Stimulated Luminescence Dating Of Individual Grains Of Quartz From Archaeological Deposits, Richard Roberts, Zenobia Jacobs

Richard G Roberts

No abstract provided.


Luminescence Characteristics And Dose Distributions For Quartz And Feldspar Grains From Mumba Rockshelter, Tanzania, Luke Gliganic, Zenobia Jacobs, Richard Roberts Mar 2013

Luminescence Characteristics And Dose Distributions For Quartz And Feldspar Grains From Mumba Rockshelter, Tanzania, Luke Gliganic, Zenobia Jacobs, Richard Roberts

Richard G Roberts

Mumba rockshelter is a key archaeological site for the Middle and Later Stone Age occupation of East Africa, but its chronology has remained unresolved. We report the results of a dating study, focussing on the characterisation of the optically stimulated luminescence (OSL) and infrared stimulated luminescence (IRSL) properties of quartz- and potassium-rich feldspar grains. Quartz has previously proven troublesome for dating in East Africa. We identified five general types of quartz grain behaviour, based on the shapes of their OSL decay and dose–response curves. Dose recovery experiments and measurement of the natural samples revealed particular problems with quartz grains that …


A Bayesian Approach To The Evaluation Of Equivalent Doses In Sediment Mixtures For Luminescence Dating, D Sivia, C Burbidge, Richard Roberts, Richard Bailey Mar 2013

A Bayesian Approach To The Evaluation Of Equivalent Doses In Sediment Mixtures For Luminescence Dating, D Sivia, C Burbidge, Richard Roberts, Richard Bailey

Richard G Roberts

No abstract provided.


Luminescence Dating Of Kimberley Rock Art, Richard Roberts Mar 2013

Luminescence Dating Of Kimberley Rock Art, Richard Roberts

Richard G Roberts

No abstract provided.


Luminescence Dating, S Troja, Richard Roberts Mar 2013

Luminescence Dating, S Troja, Richard Roberts

Richard G Roberts

No abstract provided.


Luminescence Dating In Archaeology, With Specific Reference To Southeast Asia, Richard Roberts Mar 2013

Luminescence Dating In Archaeology, With Specific Reference To Southeast Asia, Richard Roberts

Richard G Roberts

No abstract provided.


The Revolutionary Small-Sample Photon-Stimulated Luminescence Dating Methods, Richard Roberts Mar 2013

The Revolutionary Small-Sample Photon-Stimulated Luminescence Dating Methods, Richard Roberts

Richard G Roberts

No abstract provided.


Optical (Optically Stimulated Luminescence) Dating Of Quaternary Sediments, Richard Roberts Mar 2013

Optical (Optically Stimulated Luminescence) Dating Of Quaternary Sediments, Richard Roberts

Richard G Roberts

No abstract provided.