Reducing variability in OSL rock surface dating profiles

The age of Barrier Canyon-style rock art constrained by cross-cutting relations and new OSL dating techniques

Testing the potential of OSL, TT-OSL, IRSL and post-IR IRSL luminescence dating

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The Dating of Rock Art: a Critique

The methods for estimating the antiquity of rock art are reviewed critically, dividing them into traditional and scientific approaches. The reliability of both is examined critically. It seems that the most promising options have attracted only limited interest, while those methods that have been afforded the most sustained research efforts have been discredited or provide only tenuous results....

Dating and context of rock engravings in southern Africa.

Rock art is seldom recovered from sealed archeological contexts and is therefore difficult to date or integrate with other artifactual assemblages. South African engravings, found on low rocks at open-air sites, exemplify the problem. Multiscale spatial study of technique, thematic variation, faunal content, geoarcheological paterning, settlement history, and ethno-archeological setting provide...

10Be surface exposure dating

We use 10Be surface exposure dating to construct a high-resolution chronology of glacial fluctuations in the Sierra Nevada, California. Most previous studies focused on individual glaciated valleys, whereas our study compares chronologies developed throughout the range to identify regional patterns in the timing of glacier response to major climate changes. Sites throughout the range indicate L...