Abstract
The archaeological dose (AD) was measured in three tooth samples of giant mammals that belonged to Brazilian megafauna using electron spin resonance (ESR) spectroscopy at X-band (ν ∼9.5 GHz) and K-band (ν ∼24 GHz). Samples were collected in Lagoa de Dentro, Puxinanã city in Paraiba, a northeast state in Brazil and were identified as Haplomastodon waringi (Holland) (two teeth) and one tooth sample of Xenorhinotherium bahiense (Cartele and Lessa). The average AD led to an age for the Haplomastodon samples of 11.6 ky bp. For one sample ( Haplomastodon) K-band was also employed to evaluate the AD. The K-band spectrum had three components, determined using spectral simulation as follows: a wide isotropic line with g factor 2.0048, an orthorhombic line with g x = 2.0034 , g y = 2.0022 and g z = 1.9974 , and another isotropic line with g factor 2.0008. The amplitude of these three signals increase with the added dose and the average dose found was 26±5 Gy. This result is compatible with the AD determined with X-band 21±3 Gy.
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