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Early human occupation at Devil's Lair, Southwestern Australia 50,000 Years Ago

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2001

Authors

Turney, C S M
Bird, Michael
Fifield, L Keith
Roberts, Richard
Smith, M A
Dortch, Charles E.
Grun, Rainer
Lawson, Ewan
Ayliffe, Linda K
Miller, Gifford Hubbs

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University of Washington

Abstract

New dating confirms that people occupied the Australian continent before the earliest time inferred from conventional radiocarbon analysis. Many of the new ages were obtained by accelerator mass spectrometry14C dating after an acid-base-acid pretreatment

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Keywords: archaeology; electron spin resonance dating; human settlement; luminescence dating; Quaternary; radiocarbon dating; uranium series dating; Australia; Dromaius novaehollandiae ABOX-SC; Australian archaeology; Electron spin resonance dating; Luminescence dating; Radiocarbon dating; U-series dating

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http://hdl.handle.net/1885/93037

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Open Access Research

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Quaternary Research

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10.1006/qres.2000.2195

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2037-12-31

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