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Sampling and Pretreatment of Tooth Enamel Carbonate for Stable Carbon and Oxygen Isotope Analysis
Published on: August 15, 2018
ESR analysis of teeth from the palaeoanthropological site of Zhoukoudian, China
1Quatemary Dating Research Centre, Australian National University, Canberra ACT.
Journal of Human Evolution
|January 1, 1997
Abstract:
An ESR dating study on teeth collected from layers 3, 6/7 and 10 at Locality 1, Zhoukoudian provides results that are in general agreement with an earlier multi-dating study and confirm an age range of 300-550 ka for the Homo erectus remains in the Peking Man Cave. Uncertainties due to U-uptake and the external gamma dose rates do not allow very precise age estimates for the respective layers.

