ESR dating and the human evolution: contribution to the chronology of the earliest humans in Europe |
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| Institution: | 1. Université Nice Côte d''Azur, CNRS, CEPAM, France;2. Université Nice Côte d''Azur, CNRS, OCA, IRD, Géoazur, France;3. LSCE, CNRS, CEA, UVSQ, Gif-Sur-Yvette, France;4. College of Geographical Sciences, Nanjing Normal University, China;5. Guangxi Museum of Nationalities, Nanning, Guangxi, China;6. Radiogenic Isotope Facility, School of Earth Sciences, The University of Queensland, Brisbane, Australia;7. High-precision Mass Spectrometry and Environment Change Laboratory (HISPEC), Department of Geosciences, National Taiwan University, Taipei, Taiwan, ROC;8. CNRS, Département de Préhistoire, MNHN, Musée de Préhistoire, Tourrette-Levens, France;9. Department of Anthropology, University of Hawaii at Manoa, Honolulu, USA;1. Anthropology, School of World Studies, Virginia Commonwealth University, 312, N. Shafer Street, Richmond, VA 23284, United States;2. Department of Anthropology, University of Arkansas, 330, Old Main, Fayetteville, AR 72701, United States;3. Department of Medical Anatomical Sciences, Western University of Health Sciences, 309, E. Second Street, Pomona, CA 91766, United States;1. Bar-Ilan University, Israel;2. Israel Antiquity Authority, Israel;3. Galilee Studies MA Program, Tel-Hai College, Upper Galilee, Israel;4. Geological Survey of Israel, Israel |
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| Abstract: | In the last 20 years, the electron spin resonance (ESR) dating method has allowed the establishment of a chronological time frame over most of the history of human evolution. Despite many difficulties found for ESR dating of bones and carbonates, tooth enamel dated by ESR has been proven as a reliable method in its application to fossil teeth and quartz. Both of the latter materials have allowed dating of Early and Middle Pleistocene sites which are not datable using other methods such as the Argon–Argon method. In particular, recent discoveries of human remains in western Europe have been proposed to be sites of the earliest arrival of humans there, and have been dated to the Early Pleistocene by ESR using quartz and tooth enamel.Combined ESR and U-series dating of fossil herbivore teeth are the only means of dating layers from which such ancient remains have been recovered in western Europe. Good examples are the sites of Atapuerca Gran Dolina, Spain and Visogliano, Italy which have been dated using tooth enamel.When no bones and teeth can be found in prehistoric sites, ESR dating on quartz extracted from sediments has been used to date sites whose ages range over the entire Quaternary period. We present here two examples that occur in fluvial terraces of the river Creuse, France and at Monte Poggiolo site, Italy, where several artefacts of an archaic pebble industry have been recovered. |
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