On the age of Border Cave 5 human mandible

Date

2003

Authors

Grun, Rainer
Beaumont, Peter
Tobias, Phillip
Eggins, Stephen

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Academic Press

Abstract

An enamel fragment from the Border Cave 5 specimen was analysed with non-destructive ESR combined with laser ablation ICP-MS for uranium profiling. We obtained an age of 74 ± 5 ka which fits exactly into the chronological framework that has been previous

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Keywords: archaeological evidence; dating method; dentition; enamel; hominid; Quaternary; age determination; article; chemistry; fossil; human; mandible; methodology; physical anthropology; South Africa; tooth; Age Determination by Skeleton; Anthropology, Physical;

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http://hdl.handle.net/1885/74879

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ANU Research Publications

Source

Journal of Human Evolution

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Journal article

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10.1016/S0047-2484(03)00102-7

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