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ESR dates for the hominid burial site of Qafzeh in Israel
Henry P. Schwarcz,Rainer Grün,B. Vandermeersch,Ofer Bar-Yosef,Hélène Valladas,Eitan Tchernov +5 more
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In this paper, the ESR method was used to date enamel of large mammals from the hominid-bearing layers, assuming a constant rate of uptake of U through time by the teeth, they obtained an age of 115 ± 15 kyr.About:
This article is published in Journal of Human Evolution.The article was published on 1988-12-01. It has received 234 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Middle Paleolithic & Cave.read more
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The revolution that wasn't: a new interpretation of the origin of modern human behavior.
Sally McBrearty,Alison S. Brooks +1 more
TL;DR: The African Middle and early Late Pleistocene hominid fossil record is fairly continuous and in it can be recognized a number of probably distinct species that provide plausible ancestors for H. sapiens, and suggests a gradual assembling of the package of modern human behaviors in Africa, and its later export to other regions of the Old World.
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Practical and theoretical geoarchaeology
TL;DR: In this article, a broad-based perspective of the essentials of modern geoarchaeology is presented to demonstrate the breadth of the approaches and the depth of the problems that it can tackle.
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Towards a theory of modern human origins: geography, demography, and diversity in recent human evolution.
Marta Mirazón Lahr,Robert Foley +1 more
TL;DR: It is argued that the Neanderthal and modern lineages share a common ancestor in an African population between 350,000 and 250,000 years ago rather than in the earlier Middle Pleistocene; this ancestral population, which developed mode 3 technology (Levallois/Middle Stone Age), dispersed across Africa and western Eurasia in a warmer period prior to independent evolution towards Neanderthals and modern humans in stage 6.
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Multiple dispersals and modern human origins
Marta Mirazón Lahr,Robert Foley +1 more
TL;DR: There is no clear rubicon of modern Homo sapiens, and that multiple dispersals occurred from a morphologically variable population in Africa, so pre‐existing African diversity is crucial to the way human diversity developed outside Africa.
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Dating the colonization of Sahul (Pleistocene Australia-New Guinea): a review of recent research
James F. O'Connell,Jim Allen +1 more
TL;DR: This article showed that while the continent was probably occupied by 42-45,000 BP, earlier arrival dates are not well-supported, which undercuts claims for modern human migrations out of Africa and beyond the Levant before 50,000BP.
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Thermoluminescence dating of Mousterian Troto-Cro-Magnon' remains from Israel and the origin of modern man
TL;DR: This article reported thermoluminescence dates for 20 specimens of burnt flints recovered from the hominid-bearing layers of Qafzeh1 and Skhul2,3 caves in Israel have yielded the remains of over 30 hominids.
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ESR dating of tooth enamel: Coupled correction for U-uptake and U-series disequilibrium
TL;DR: In this article, the authors present a method of determining the uptake history by simultaneously fitting a model uptake function to the U-series and accumulated dose data, which is of the form U(t) = Uo (t)p+1; Uo is the observed U-238 content of the tooth; p is a parameter to be determined in the fitting procedure; T is the age of the sample, and U(T) is the U content at any time t.
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Thermoluminescence dates for the Neanderthal burial site at Kebara in Israel
Hélène Valladas,J. L. Joron,G. Valladas,Baruch Arensburg,Ofer Bar-Yosef,Anna Belfer-Cohen,Paul Goldberg,Henri Laville,Liliane Meignen,Yoel Rak,Eitan Tchernov,Anne-Marie Tillier,Bernard Vandermeersch +12 more
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors reported that ther-moluminescence dates from 38 specimens of burnt flint recovered from 4 m of Kebara deposits range from about 60,000 to 48,000 years before present (BP), indicating that Neanderthals were present in the Levant in the latter part of the middle Palaeolithic.
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Electron spin resonance dating of tooth enamel
TL;DR: The amplitude of the electron spin resonance (ESR) peak at g ǫ = 2.0018 for hydroxyapatite of fossil tooth enamel can be used to measure the acquired radiation dose (AD) and thus the time (T) since b...
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The bilzingsleben archaeological site: new dating evidence
TL;DR: In this paper, the Bilzingsleben archaeological site was used for electron spin resonance (ESR) analysis of travertine and tooth enamel of rhinoceros.