Luminescence dating of Quaternary sediments: recent advances

GAT Duller - Journal of quaternary science, 2004 - Wiley Online Library
Luminescence dating is unique amongst geochronological methods in dating the deposition
of sediments based upon the properties of the constituent minerals. For Quaternary …

Luminescence chronologies for coastal and marine sediments

Z Jacobs - Boreas, 2008 - Wiley Online Library
Luminescence dating techniques have been applied to a range of different types of coastal
and marine deposits, involving a variety of depositional processes and environments, as a …

Continuity of the Middle Stone Age into the holocene

EML Scerri, K Niang, I Candy, J Blinkhorn, W Mills… - Scientific Reports, 2021 - nature.com
Abstract The African Middle Stone Age (MSA, typically considered to span ca. 300–30
thousand years ago [ka]), represents our species' first and longest lasting cultural phase …

Constraining the contribution of the Antarctic Ice Sheet to Last Interglacial sea level

RL Barnett, J Austermann, B Dyer, MW Telfer… - Science …, 2023 - science.org
Polar temperatures during the Last Interglacial [LIG;~ 129 to 116 thousand years (ka)] were
warmer than today, making this time period an important testing ground to better understand …

Palaeoenvironmental interpretation of Yedoma Silt (ice complex) deposition as cold‐climate loess, Duvanny Yar, Northeast Siberia

JB Murton, T Goslar, ME Edwards… - Permafrost and …, 2015 - Wiley Online Library
Uncertainty about the geological processes that deposited syngenetically frozen ice‐rich silt
(yedoma) across hundreds of thousands of square kilometres in central and northern Siberia …

Detecting post-depositional sediment disturbance in sandy deposits using optical luminescence

MD Bateman, CH Boulter, AS Carr, CD Frederick… - Quaternary …, 2007 - Elsevier
Post-depositional mixing or exhumation is common in surficial sediments, yet may be
unobservable from field evidence. However, any disturbance may have significant …

Long-term sediment decline causes ongoing shrinkage of the Mekong megadelta, Vietnam

T Tamura, VL Nguyen, TKO Ta, MD Bateman… - Scientific Reports, 2020 - nature.com
Since the 1990s the Mekong River delta has suffered a large decline in sediment supply
causing coastal erosion, following catchment disturbance through hydropower dam …

Longstanding behavioural stability in West Africa extends to the Middle Pleistocene at Bargny, coastal Senegal

K Niang, J Blinkhorn, MD Bateman… - Nature ecology & …, 2023 - nature.com
Abstract Middle Stone Age (MSA) technologies first appear in the archaeological records of
northern, eastern and southern Africa during the Middle Pleistocene epoch. The absence of …

Aeolianite and barrier dune construction spanning the last two glacial–interglacial cycles from the southern Cape coast, South Africa

MD Bateman, PJ Holmes, AS Carr, BP Horton… - Quaternary Science …, 2004 - Elsevier
The southern Cape region of South Africa has extensive coastal aeolianites and barrier
dunes. Whilst previously reported, limited knowledge of their age has precluded an …

AMS radiocarbon dating of Middle and Upper Palaeolithic bone in the British Isles: improved reliability using ultrafiltration

RM Jacobi, TFG Higham… - Journal of Quaternary …, 2006 - Wiley Online Library
Recent research at the Oxford Radiocarbon Accelerator Unit (ORAU) has shown that
ultrafiltration of gelatin from archaeological bone can, in many instances, remove low …