The application of luminescence dating in American archaeology

Feathers, James K.

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“…The principles of OSL and its application for dating mineral grains are now well established (Aitken, ; Bateman et al., ; Duller, ; Feathers, , ). OSL samples for this project were collected using a hydraulic coring device (GeoProbe Model 6620DT) and a push‐core.…”

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Radiocarbon and Luminescence Age Determinations on Mounds at Crystal River and Roberts Island, Florida, USA

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Optically stimulated luminescence (OSL) has been employed successfully to determine the ages of palaeosols from earthen mounds in the southeastern USA, providing archaeologists with a means of dating monument construction in the absence of carbonaceous materials and geologists with a setting for understanding factors that can affect the luminescence intensity (i.e., burial dose) of soils. However, OSL dating has not been adequately tested on mounds whose principal component is sand, shell, or a combination of these two, despite the fact that monuments composed of such materials are common to the coasts and interior coastal plains of the region. Radiocarbon dating of bone collagen and soil-carbon and OSL dating of quartz grains extracted from the fill of mounds at the Crystal River and Roberts Island sites on the west-central coast of Florida, USA are used to determine the timing and history of mound construction at the sites. Comparison of OSL and radiocarbon ages on materials from the same or closely related contexts provides insight into factors influencing age determinations in mound fill deposits, particularly the type of construction material (sand or shell) and the manner in which these were deposited. The results contribute to the understanding of the temporal context of platform mound construction in southeastern USA. C 2015 Wiley Periodicals, Inc.

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Radiocarbon and Luminescence Age Determinations on Mounds at Crystal River and Roberts Island, Florida, USA

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“…Principles of luminescence dating of ceramics have been previously reviewed (Aitken, 1985(Aitken, , 1989, most recently in an archaeological context by Feathers (1997). Two problems in dating young ceramic samples -low signal output and nonlinearity in the growth curves -are considered here, as well as problems in determining the dose rate for surface samples.…”

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Luminescence dating of protohistoric pottery from the Great Basin

Rhode

1998

Geoarchaeology

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“…14 C and cation dating of rock varnish on tools and petroglyphs, once touted as proof of pre-Clovis occupation of western North America (Whitley and Dorn 1993) has been shown to be completely unreliable (Dorn 1996). In the near future, refinement of methods for thermoluminescence (TL) dating of burnt chert and optically stimulated luminescence (OSL) dating of aeolian sand grains (Feathers 1997) may yield reliable and moderately precise dates for these materials (see now, e.g. Rich and Stokes 2001;Hilgers et al 2001).…”

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Initial Human Colonization of the Americas: An Overview of the Issues and the Evidence

Fiedel¹

2002

Radiocarbon

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Ever since José de Acosta's prescient speculation, in 1590, that Native Americans were descended from “savage hunters” who had followed game animals across a land bridge from northeastern Asia into northwestern America (Acosta 1604), most serious scholars have assumed that this was the migration route. The main point of dispute has been the date when the ancestral Asians made the crossing. After many nineteenth-century claims of the discovery of stone tools or bones of “early man” failed to withstand scientific scrutiny, a conservative reaction set in, embodied by the hyper-skeptical Aleš Hrdlička of the Smithsonian Institution. Hrdlička dismissed all claims of a human presence in the Americas prior to about 5000 years ago.

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The application of luminescence dating in American archaeology

Cited by 34 publications

References 153 publications

Radiocarbon and Luminescence Age Determinations on Mounds at Crystal River and Roberts Island, Florida, USA

Radiocarbon and Luminescence Age Determinations on Mounds at Crystal River and Roberts Island, Florida, USA

Luminescence dating of protohistoric pottery from the Great Basin

Initial Human Colonization of the Americas: An Overview of the Issues and the Evidence

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